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The American
Grad11ate
School oJ
Inlemalional
Management
Volume XLVfJI,
Number 1
1993
Thunderbird
CIBER
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1992-93
Annual
Report
TABLE OF CONTENTS Thunderbird Magazine
Volume XLVID, Issue 1
2 What We've Known for Years ... 1993
Thunderbird Center for A publication of the Thunderbird Alumni
Intmnatio nat Business Alumni Relations Office of Association 1993-94
The American Graduate Board of Directors
Education and Research &;hool of International and Officers
7 Privatization in Poland
Management, 15249 N. 59th
Avenue, Glendale, AZ Chairman of the Board
8 The First Executive M.I.M.
85306-6006 (602) 978-7135 Stephen K. Orr '79
TELEX 187123
FAX (602) 978-8238 President
10 Opinion on the Middle East H. Gene Wick '60
12 From Wake Forest to Wales Assistant Vice Presid('nt for Vice Presidents
The new faculty of Thunderbird ComlmuUcation and Editor: Maruten FI(,lIIke '79
Nelda S. Crowell Thomas D. Hobson '79
13 Thirty at Thunderbird LindaJ. Magoon '84
Joaquim DuaTte and Publication Specialist and
Managing Editor: Secretary
JO'rge Valdivieso Kru'en Enyedy Breunig Bobbie M. Boyd
15 Commencement '93 Conullwlication Secretary: Ex Officio Members
JoaIU) Toole Roy A. Herberger, Jr.
16 Footnotes Jolm E. Berndt
18 Bookstore Catalog
Design:
Pat Kenny Graphic Design Board Members
20 A Living Legend Director of AlIllllJ1i
John C. Cook '79
George T. DeBakey '73
Goldwater speaks to Relations and Publishel~ Michael T. Dillon '78
Bobbie M. Boyd Webb F. Elkins '63 Arizona alums McDianllid R. Messenger '72
21 Thtmderbird in Europe Assistant Director Carolyn Polson O'Malley '70
of Alumni Relations: Joseph A. O'Neill '80
22 Network Michelle Olson Richru'd E. Ragsdale '67
Mike A. Santellanes, Sr. '60
25 Updates Al\U1mi Relations Stall: Martin E. SllSZ '79
JanetM. Mueller MruthaS. Van Gelder
1992-93 Annual Report Executive Secretary/ Gypton '88
Office Manager Daniel D. Witcher '50
Winterim in Washington Advertising Director,
Thunderbini magazine
Jane Kidney Honorary Boru'd Members:
011 the Cover: Secretary Joseph M. Klein '47
Helen Grassbaugh
As a resul.1 of being named a Centerfor Receptionist
I nlemational Business Education and Ruth E. Thompson
Administrative Assistant
ReseaTch, Thunderbird's ma,ny new DOlma Cleland
Data Base Administrator
programs alia centers have significant Lucille CensopraIlo
global implications. Data Entry Clerk
Business Week Ranks Thunderbird
Business Week,
in its June 7,
1993 issue,
named Thun­derbird
to its list oftop 40
business schools. This is
significant not only for
the recognition of the
Thunderbird program,
but also for the national
exposure it brings to the
school (Business Week's
average circulation is
886,229). Vice President
for Academic Affairs
David Ricks, in his
address to the summer
1993 incoming students,
declared that he was
delighted to have Thun­derbird
included on a list
of Top 40 B-Schools not
only because of the pres­tigious
institutions named,
but also because Thun­derbird
does not con­sider
itself a typical
business school. "We
consider ourselves an
international manage­ment
program," said
Ricks, "If they consider
us among the top busi­ness
schools as well, so
much the better."
Rankillg America's Top B-Schools
ness cannot fail to con­sider
going to this school
for a master's in busi­ness."
Both the magazine
article and the listing in
"A Business Week Guide:
Ill-Depth Profiles of Over 50 MBA Programs
Thunderbird is included among 20
unranked "runners-up" (to the ranked top
twenty) which were selected based on a
survey of leading corporate recruiters.
The runners-up distinguish themselves by
"their ability to develop strengths in niche
areas and to offer creative touches to the
traditional MBA." Business Week pOints
out that most of the innovation in
Business School programs is found in
schools that are "lingering on the edge" of
the Top 20. These schools are trying
harder than the national leaders to adapt
their progranls to the changing needs of
both students and employers; this is espe­cially
true with respect to international
business.
It therefore comes as no surprise that
Thunderbird's long-established tripartite
curriculum is cited as its most distinguish­ing
feature. Business Week notes, "anyone
seriously interested in international busi-
The Best Business
Schools" focus on Thun­derbird's
history as the
country's first and fore­most
management pro­gram
with a global
perspective. For the first
30 years of the school's
existence, in fact, Thun­derbird
offered the only
such program in the
nation.
As for "snobby acade­mics
(who) turn up their
noses when you mention
Thunderbird," Business
Week says: "Phooey on
them." Although the
unique nature of the
M.I.M. degree has to date
denied Thunderbird
AACSB accreditation (an
application is currently
under review), still
"there's no shortage of
recruiters wanting Thun­derbird
grads." The top
alumni employers are
Citibank (110), Chase
Manhattan Bank (87), U.S. Department of
State (86), BankAmerica (67) and Merrill
Lynch (64), and the top 1992 recruiters
were PepsiCo (6), U.S. government (6),
Mars, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola,
Citibank, American Express and AT&T
with 4 grads each. Also noteworthy is the
list of accredited schools not making
Business Week's Top 40, such as Arizona
State University, Ohio State, Rice
University, Texas A&M, University of
Florida, University of Maryland, etc.
The American Graduate School of
International Management is better
equipped than others to prepare its gradu­ates
for success in the global market, and
this is supported by Business Week. While
other institutions are scrambling to inter­nationalize
their programs, Thunderbird
is "sitting pretty" with 47 years of experi­ence
readying students for international
careers. •
by Jennifer Erickson
at We've Known
for Years ...
•• . is Now Official
u. S. Department of Education names Thunderbird a
Center for International Business Education and Research.
To baseball fans, it's a bottom­of-
the-ninth, bases-loaded,
grand-slam home run. In ten­nis
it's a Wimbledon title. To
soccer enthusiasts, it's a World Cup. No
matter what the contest, being named
the best of your field after intense com­petition
is the pinnacle of success.
For Thunderbird, it means being
named a CIBER-a Center for Inter­national
Business Education and
Research-the best of the best, and a
model for other international business
programs around the country.
Thunderbird's CIBER grant, which
was awarded in July by the U.S. Depart­ment
of Education, is perhaps the great­est
boost the School has received in
recent years. It is a very prestigious
award that will greatly enhance the aca­demic
reputation of the School, ex­plains
CIBER director Dr. David Ricks,
vice president for academic affairs.
CIBER's basic purpose is to generate
new ideas and launch new programs,
says Ricks. Program ideas may come
from faculty, alunmi or business people.
All the new ideas and programs will
support the basic mission of the School
-to prepare individuals for manage­ment
positions in many cultures.
ENHANCING THE ACADEMIC
REPUTATION
Through the innovative programs it
fosters and merely by its presence,
CIBER's greatest role will be helping to
enhance the academic reputation of the
School. "In international business cir­cles,
Thunderbird's reputation is not an
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
issue," explains Ricks. "But in the acad­emic
community, we've sometimes
been questioned.
"CIBER says that we have joined the
'club' of high quality international busi­ness
schools. And all the programs that
develop through the CIBER have the
probability of increasing the School's
reputation," says Ricks.
"Just as we expect AACSB accredita­tion
can do, the CIBER gives us another
credential. In fact, it will probably help
in our effort to attain accreditation,
because it is an outside stamp of
approval," says Ricks. "AACSB will
know that we went through a competi­tive
review: 70 schools applied for the
four new [CIBER) centers.
"Also, the recent Business Week
ranking (see page 1) is an outside opin­ion
that says we're one of the best. Any
time you can get one of these outside
opinions, it really helps your case."
ONE OF ONLY 25
The CIBER program was created by
the Department of Education in 1989.
Several groups including the American
Assembly of Collegiate Schools of
Business (AACSB), the Department of
Education, the Academy of Internation­al
Business, and the Canadian govern­ment
were instrumental in developing
the CIBER program.
Currently the "club" membership is
limited to just 25 CIBER centers. Every
three years a CIBER award must be
reconsidered, so some fluctuation in
membership occurs. But with the pro­grams
the Thunderbird CIBER has in
progress, Ricks expects that the school
is certainly going to be one that goes the
distance.
"Schools with the highest points
win," Ricks says. "For most schools, the
expectation is to be a regional center,
but ours will be more nationally
focused. Our programs will draw fac­ulty
from all over the United States," he
says.
Once the CIBER programs are up and
running, they move out of CIBER pro­tection
to become self-supporting and
to make way for new, fresh ideas. "The
idea is to give new opportunities a
chance-it gives us extra dollars to
launch programs. More ideas will be
tried than will work, but it's a place to
give ideas a chance."
TRAINING FACUL TV
One of the first CIBER programs tak­ing
shape is the Faculty Development in
International
Business (FDIB) The chief administra-program,
to tors oJ the Thunderbird
begin in Win- Genter Jor International
terim 1994. Its Business Education
goal is to teach and Research (GIBER)
selected bus i-ness
professors are Dr. LleweUyn
from other U.S. HoweU, Associate Direc-schools
how to
add an interna­tional
dimension
to the courses
they are already
teaching. Ricks
developed and
was director of a
tor; Dr. Gandace Deans,
Assistant Director;
and Dr. David Ricks,
Director. The map in
the background slwws
some oj the nation's
25 GIBER centers.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
CIDER Fosters Undergraduate
Linkages
Dickinson College, a liberal arts
undergraduate school with no gradu­ate
program of its own, is the first par­ticipant
in the Thunderbird Under­graduate
Linkages program being cre­ated
under the CIBER. The idea is that
by providing undergraduate schools
with a Thunderbird link, their students
can complete many of the prerequi­sites
and attain the M.I.M. in one year.
It also enables Thunderbird to market
the M.I.M. to a new audience-fresh­men
and sophomores at the nation's
best hberal arts schools and other top
undergraduate institutions that don't
have their own graduate program.
"We have provided Dickinson with a
Thunderbird track, It explains Lew
Howell, associate director of Thunder­bird's
CIBER and coordinator of the
undergraduate linkages program.
"Students there can sign up at the
beginning of their sophomore year and
select pre-approved courses for auto­matic
Thunderbird waivers. H they
take those courses [at Dickinson) and
are accepted to Thunderbird, they
could earn the M.I.M. in one year," he
sa;ys.
"We foresee that Dickinson students
who come to Thtmderbird could waive
the language requirement, two of the
four international studies require­ments,
and maybe some world busi­ness
prerequisites."
'11nmdeIbird hopes to develop 20-25
such ~linlcs over the next
five years, Bowen says. Bowell noted
similar FDIB program at the University
of South Carolina, which attracted hun­dreds
of faculty.
Training faculty is one of the best
ways to heighten a school's academic
reputation. "This
that Southeast Asia's University of
Brunei is an example of an interna­tional
school he is pursuing for a simi­lar
arrangement. As Dickinson is
already doing, these schools will pro­mote
Thunderbird as the school to
attend for a master's degree in interna­tional
management, giving Thunder­bird
an added boost for attracting high
quality students.
Students at schools with the
"Thunderbird Undergraduate Link"
will have an advantage in the
Thunderbird application process via
some automatic standards. For exam­ple,
a Dickinson student, who has com­pleted
the Thunderbird track, has no
work experience, a 3.2 GPA, a 600+
GMAT score and has studied abroad
for one semester is automatically
admitted to Thunderbird. Those with
at least two years of professional work
experience, will be admitted with a 3.0
GPA, a 570+ GMAT and one semester
abroad.
"We may end up with a few more
students directly from their undergrad­uate
studies, but basically, we don't
intend to change the mix of students
very much. This undergraduate linkage
program is just one piece of a larger
recruiting puzzle," Howell explains. In
other pieces of the puzzle, like the
post-MBA program, we are trying to
attract people with more experience.
In my view, we are trying to attract
bright, well-educated students, many
of whom have solid work experience."
"FDIB allows us to train other faculty
to teach international business,"
explains Ricks. The program is primarily
for business professors who teach at the
undergraduate level. They learn how to
internationalize
program is some­thing
that may not
be visible to alumni
or students, but it
will be to faculty
who teach interna­tional
business all
around the coun­try,
and that faculty
is very important
to us," Ricks says.
Thunderbird's
CIBERgrant
... is perhaps the
their classrooms,
and Thunderbird
makes personal
contact with influ­ential
undergradu­ate
professors who
advise students on
which graduate
schools to explore.
greatest boost the
School has received
in recent years.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII / 1 / 1993
An add-on pro­gram
of FDIB is a
sununer language sequence that begins
in 1994. Under the direction of Dr. Jorge
Valdivieso, professor of Spanish, under­graduate
Spanish teachers will attend
an FDIB course that instructs them how
to teach business vocabulary and usage.
Eventually, other Thunderbird lan­guages
will be added to the summer
program. Ricks says there is a growing
trend among undergraduate business
majors to study a non-English language,
so business-language training is a nat­ural.
"We are targeting all faculty," says
Ricks. "The CIBER is not limited by sub­ject
area."
Another language program is the fur­ther
development of lexicons and busi­ness
dictionaries for the Thunderbird
languages. Lexicons have already been
developed for German, Chinese, and
Japanese. Russian will be next.
A NEW ACADEMIC JOURNAL
The Journal of International Manage­ment
(JIM) is another dimension of the
Thunderbird CIBER. This new academic
journal will publish articles covering the
integration of cultural components into
international management research pro­jects
and teaching strategies for interna­tional
management. The quarterly
publication will fill an international man­agement
academic void. The journal will
be edited by Dr. Ricks, who served eight
years as editor of the Journal of
International Business Studies; Allen
Morrison, associate professor of man­agement;
and J. Stewart Black, associate
professor of management.
DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS
Two other CIBER programs will also
help build the School's academic repu­tation:
an MBNMIM expansion pro­gram
and a program to develop a
post-MBA degree. CIBER will facilitate
the expansion of the number of schools
with which Thunderbird has dual
degree agreements (M.B.A.lM.I.M.). The
School currently has programs with the
University of Arizona, Arizona State Uni­versity
and the University of Houston.
"We have contacted the top 40
schools in the Business Week ranking to
see if they are interested in an M.B.A./
M.I.M. agreement," Ricks says. "These
are well-known, nationally ranked MBA
programs. Our goal is to have 15 of
these programs," Ricks says. "The pro­gram
benefits Thunderbird by attracting
top M.B.A. students, thereby enhancing
the student body with stronger, brighter
students."
POST M.B.A. DEGREE
The other program being developed
is the post-M.B.A. M.I.M. "We plan to
invite people who already have an
M.B.A. to come for an accelerated
M.I.M.," says Ricks. "Our target audi­ence
is all the people who took the
M.B.A. but never had a course in inter­national
business." The post-M.B.A. stu­dents
must come from an AACSB­accredited
program and must go
through the same admission process as
non-M.B.A. applicants. "We're not going
to accept someone just because they
have an M.B.A.," says Ricks. "Our goal is
to get the best 1,600 students we can.
We don't want to grow; we want to
increase the quality of our student body.
The better students we get in, the better
classes and standards and reputation
Thunderbird will have."
Ricks believes that the alumni net­work
is a big drawing card to the post­M.
B.A. student. "A lot of M.B.A.s know
about the Thunderbird network and will
want to join. The post-M.B.A. who earns
an M.I.M. will be easy to place in the job
market, Ricks says. "We're willing to let
people have the impression that the
M.I.M. is more than an M.B.A.-it is a
higher level program."
(IBER BOLSTERS THUNDERBIRD EUROPE
A key element of the Thunderbird
CIBER is to bolster the Thunderbird
Europe program, which opened January
1993 at the campus in Archamps,
France, near Geneva. Since the Thun­derbird
Europe campus is a model for
future expansion into Latin America and
Asia, its success is crucial to the contin­ued
development of Thunderbird's over­seas
programs. The Archamps campus
had 33 students enrolled in the spring
semester and more than 40 in the sum­mer,
but a sharply smaller fall enroll­ment
has opened the door for Thun­derbird
to invite other schools to part­ner
in this venture.
"We're creating an international con­sortium
for graduate business schools
who want to send faculty and students
to study at our campuses in Archamps
or Tokyo. Consortium members would
also be participants in any future over­seas
campuses, Ricks said.
OTHER ClBER BENEFITS
The CIBER will also help attract top
faculty, who recognize CIBER schools
as those with creative and supportive
atmospheres for new research and
experimental programs, Ricks says.
CIBER Reaches the Business Community
The Thunderbird CIBER will foster
links with the business community pri­marily
through six new centers that will
incorporate Thunderbird expertise into
the changing international business cli­mate.
The centers will be beachheads
for study, research, and conferences
that will help smaU- and medium-sized
businesses move into the global market­place.
The North American Free Trade
(NAFTA) Center, directed by Shoshana
Tancer, professor of
international studies,
is a resource for com­panies
adapting to
the new rules of busi­ness
between the
U.S., Canada and
Mexico. Outreach
efforts include con-
Shoshana Tancer
ferences, contract research, and execu­tive
development programs to
strengthen relationships of businesses
and government agencies in the region.
The Center for the International
Management of Technology, directed by
Dennis Guthery, professor of world
Dennis
Guthery
business and director of
the School's Master of
International Manage­ment
of Technology
degree program, is a
leading-edge nucleus for
companies. "The Center
is designed to help busi­nesses
meet three chal­lenges:
1) to integrate
technology into a firm's strategic objec­tives;
2) to assess and evaluate technol­ogy
more effectively; and 3) to improve
new product development processes."
The Center for International Risk
Management, directed by John
O'Connell, professor of world business,
is an educational
resource and clear­inghouse
for U.S.
firms searching for
information on laws
and regulations per­taining
to four topics:
1) international envi­ronmental
risk man- John O'Connell
agement, 2) disaster planning, 3)
political risk management and 4) inter­national
liability determination. This is
the first U.S. clearinghouse for informa­tion
on international risk management.
The Thunderbird Multimedia Center,
directed by Beverly Knystautas, associ-ate
professor of educational technology,
is a resource for Thunderbird faculty
and for the business
community to integrate
multimedia technology
into the classroom and
the boardroom. It also
offers consulting and
development services to
companies that want to Beverly
incorporate multimedia Knystautas
into their international
business training. Multimedia is espe­cially
effective in language learning, and
the center has already created a Chinese
application. The Multimedia Center has
also received support from IBM.
The Center for International Health
Management is directed by Robert
Tancer, associate professor of interna­tional
studies and director of the
School's Master of International Health
Management degree program. "We're
going to use the center to attract pro­grams
that will enhance the basic
Robert Tancer
health degree pro­gram,
focusing first
on legal and ethical
questions affecting
organ transplants
around the world,"
says Tancer. "We're
also developing a
program through a
$40,000 grant from Searle for a lecture
series on international health subjects
such as infectious diseases and cross­border
implications." Other issues
include privatization of health care and
cost-effectiveness in pharmaceuticals.
The International Environmental
Management Center, co-directed by
Michael Woolverton,
professor of world
business and John
Conklin, associate pro­fessor
of international
studies, will broaden
the M.I.M. program by
integrating courses in
international environ­mental
policy and man­agement.
Additionally,
the center will conduct
research in environ­mental
management
and will support con­ferences
and other
activities dealing with
environmental policy John Conklin
and management.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
Center for International Business Education and Research
CENTERS
Multimedia Center
Dr. Beverty Knystautas
Center for the International
Management of Technology
Dr. Dennis Guthery
Center for International
Health Management
Dr. Robert Tancer
Center for International Risk
Management
Dr. John O'Connell
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) Center
Dr. Shoshana Tancer
Center for Environmental Policy
Dr. John Conklin and
Dr. Michael Woolverton
Faculty can submit research proposals
that could receive in-house funding.
Case-writing is an example of a faculty­proposed
project that the Thunderbird
CIBER would fund.
"It's going to touch the lives offaculty
here the most and will enable us to
launch programs that will improve the
reputation of the School. The impact
may be hard for alumni to measure,
but it will be real," Ricks says. "It
gives us extra dollars to launch pro­grams
and it adds credentials and
credibility to the academic rigor of
our programs."
Those credentials translate world­wide
into higher demand for T'birds
and the development of better stu­dents
to join the world's elite inter­nationalists.
6 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
OBER ADMINI5TRA11ON
Dr. David Ricks. Director
Dr. Uewellyn Howell. Associate Director
Dr. Candace DeaM. Assistant Director
Dr. Beverty Springer. Research
Mr. Randy Schilling. External Affairs
Dr. Jorge Valdlvieso. Faculty Relations
PROGRAMS
Faculty Development in Journal of International
International Business - Management
Dr. David Ricks - Dr. David Rides
Thunderbird Europe Russian Dictionary of
Campus I-- Business Tenninology
Dr. Curtis Harvey - Dr. Walter Tuman
Dual-Degree Program Undergraduate University
Post-MBA - Unkages
Prof. Richard Bossert - Dr. Uewellyn Howell
External Unkages with Integrating Research
the Business Community - Dr. Beverty Springer
Mr. Randy Schilling '---
The CIBER, which is funded through
the U.S. Department of Education,
draws $100,000 on September 1, 1993.
Each year the CIBER director must sub­mit
an annual report to request the next
year's funding. The initial grant is for
three years, and the first year is almost
"CIBER gives us extra
dollars to launch
programs and it adds
credentials and credibility
to the academic rigor of
our programs. "
always the smallest grant given, Ricks
says. He expects years two and three of
the Thunderbird CIBER to bring in as
much as $300,000 each year.
Dr. Llewellyn Howell, chair of the
international studies department, is
associate director for the CIBER pro­gram;
and Candace Deans, associate
professor of world business, is
assistant director. Members of the
CIBER executive committee are
Beverly Springer, professor of inter­national
studies; Dennis Guthery,
professor of world business; Jorge
Valdivieso, professor of Spanish;
and Randy Schilling, associate vice
president for development. •
by Mary Mi tchell
Privatization in Poland generally in favor of it. While some
Polish citizens think that everything
should be privatized, others advocate
limits, with the state retaining control of
Polish official updates Thunderbird strategic domains of the economy."
community on changes, risks, opportunities Another major obstacle is the absence
of business infrastructure. Poland is a
case in point, emerging after five years
Privatization has emerged as the
leading public policy trend
today. In Eastern Europe, pri­vatized
enterprises now
account for more in sales than all
Western and South American privatiza­tion
projects combined.
It's commonly called the "sale of the
century," said Jerzy Strzelecki, under­secretary
of state in the Ministry of
Privatisation responsible for capital pri­vatization
for the Republic of Poland, in
a presentation to students and faculty at
Thunderbird.
Why sell? Partly for economic rea­sons,
since "these companies
have shown themselves to be
inept in providing goods to
the citizens," says Strzelecki.
Another reason is philosoph­ical,
as privatization dimin­ishes
the role of the state.
Also, "we're seeing an impor­tant
cultural change .... entre­preneurs
and innovators did
not have a place in the state­owned
economy." Now,
much of the emerging pri­vate
sector in Eastern
Europe consists of small
family-owned businesses.
DRAMATIC PROGRESS
By April 1993, less than four years
after privatization began in Poland, the
Ministry had legally transformed from
state-owned to joint stock enterprises
some 900 industrial companies, 566
construction companies, 262 agricul­tural
companies and 194 distribution
companies. Almost 60 percent of the
labor force now works in the private
sector, and some areas, such as foreign
trade, are 90 percent privatized.
The country has also formed 3,000
joint ventures of significant size-the
largest a $2 billion investment by Fiat,
with other major deals by European
multinationals Asea-Brown-Boveri,
Unilever, Philips and IKEA, Japan's
Nissho Iwai and Itoh, and U.S.-based
multinationals such as Coca-Cola,
Ameritech and AT&T.
The overall volume of investment
activity has helped the Warsaw stock
exchange gain status as the world's
best-performing stock market, with cap­ital
gains of 200 percent to 600 percent,
and helped Poland become the single
biggest market in Central Europe.
This year Poland achieved Europe's
highest growth rate, an estimated 4.5
percent, after having gone through
extensive economic and financial
reform, known as "shock therapy,"
beginning in 1989. Inflation has fallen
from 900 percent in 1989 to its current
level of 32 percent.
of war and 40 years of communism.
There were no Western-type fmancial
structures. "Accounting was merely a
mechanism to register money rather
than a credit/investment system," says
Strzelecki. With a regulated economy,
marketing was unnecessary-every­thing
a company produced was sellable.
Strzelecki describes management as
highly politicized, with managers from
the top down appointed by Communists
at different levels of the party structure.
Local party Communists typically ran
the lower levels of a company, such that
upward mobility was not based on eco­nomic
or management skills. As a
result, Poland now has a shortage of
local managers experienced in running
corporations.
Poland's Jerzy
Str-zelecki of the ISSUES OF CHANGE
As income and operat­ing
expenses were irrele­vant,
overemployment
was the norm, with
Eastern European compa­nies
having three to four
times as many workers as
comparable Western com­panies.
Some managers
oppose the entry of pri­vate
investors, as one cer­tain
result is increased
Minist1y of
Privatisation talks
with Dr. Paul
Johnson,l7ofessor
of Wortd Business,
and Andre
Mierzwa '87 who
helped arrange
StTzelecki's visit to
Thunderbird.
CHALLENGES AHEAD
Poland's economic reforms are
expected to continue, despite recent
elections that brought a leftist coalition,
dominated by the Democratic Left
Alliance and Poland Peasants' Party, to
power. These groups, both with roots in
the communist system, consider them­selves
social democrats, intent on con­tinuing
the agenda of market reforms
while also advocating support for the
needy.
Eastern European companies now
face some of the same challenges as
Western companies, plus a host of
unique problems related to the transi­tion
from communism to capitalism.
"Our biggest problem is education,"
says Strzelecki. "The privatizers in
Poland are the avant-garde working for
change in society. The political elite are
unemployment, without
"golden parachutes" for managers who
lose their jobs.
The Ministry is consulting with
experts on dealing with unemployment
and other social issues of change, such
as rate of production and salary
increases. "One company we tried to
privatize had a conflict between union
and management, such that we had to
suspend privatization," says Strzelecki.
Adds Warsaw-based Thunderbird
alum Andre Mierzwa '87, a Principal and
the Director of Privatisation Services
for Central Europe Trust, "The issue is
what's the risk of running the business.
We have to make people [concerned
about] the future. If they don't do this,
they will never succeed in economy and
business. There are no more state cred­its.
People must take on the risk of run­ning
businesses themselves." •
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993
The First Executive MIM
Full-time professionals conclude two-year
program and graduate with class
Ar two hectic years of studying
for an M.I.M. while handling
full-time professional jobs, the
students in the first Executive
M.I.M. class received their degrees dur­ing
August, 1993, commencement cere­monies.
The E.M.I.M. program has the same
curriculum requirements as the M.I.M.,
but differs in format and time period.
One difference is that the E.M.I.M. pro­gram
is lock-step, meaning that the 24
students in the group started at the
same time and took all their classes
together throughout the two years. In
addition, the classes are offered all day
on Fridays and Saturdays every other
weekend. As with the standard M.I.M.,
language is required, but was limited to
Spanish, German, or Japanese.
Before the students were accepted,
their companies had to agree to support
the program by releasing the partici­pants
from their job responsibilities on
scheduled class days. In some cases,
Working professionals in thefirst
Executive M.I.M. class celebrate
their graduation after two years
of attending weekend classes. Dr.
M. Edgar Barrett, vice president
for executive education (lower
photo, secondfrom right) devel­oped
the program, which is now
forming i ts fourth class.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993
the companies also paid the tuition. The
students are currently employed by
such firms as AT&T, Honeywell,
Motorola, Carborundum, the Arizona
Department of Education, G.E., IBM,
MicroRel, US West, Allied Signal, and
Paragon Vision Sciences.
The class also includes entrepre­neurs,
real estate professionals, one
computer software company president,
and an attorney. One class member,
Dick Shriver, was lured out of retire­ment
to attend this first executive pro­gram.
For him, going to Thunderbird
was a lifelong dream. He had been
accepted years before as a regular
M.I.M. student, but had chosen to go
with a job opportunity instead. Now he
was free to pursue the degree he has
always wanted.
Admission requirements are unique
to the E.M.I.M. Students are required to
have eight years of business experience
as well as a good academic record and
strong recommendations. They may
enter only in the fall. The 22 students in
the second group that started in fall,
1992, are now beginning their last year
of the program, and the third group of
22 is now in their first semester of the
program.
The E.M.I.M. course work begins with
an in-residence period of one week and
continues for six trimesters. A trip to
Mexico at the end of the first year and a
ten-day international trip during the sec­ond
year complete the experience.
The hardest part, they admit, is trying
to juggle the pressures of home, work,
and school. "Most of us have 50-to-60-
hour work weeks, and many blend the
demands of Thunderbird with travel
commitments related to our work,» said
Vickie Axford Austin in an article she
wrote for Das Tor. "It isn't unusual for
us to fax study notes back and forth
across time zones or for study groups to
meet via teleconference to connect
interstate. By definition, the people who
apply for and endure an executive mas­ter's
program are driven, so our work
still takes a high priority.
"And so do our families. Many of us
are married and raising kids; and for
people with demanding careers, it's
hard enough to find time for family
within the confines of ajob. Add to that
the hours of study time, group sessions,
and time spent in the classroom every
other Friday and Saturday from 7:50
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for two years. It takes a
particularly patient spouse and under­standing
children to tolerate constant
school-related absences,» says Vickie.
She, herself, is typical, holding a job as
national account executive with
McMurry Publishing, while fulfilling the
roles of student, wife, and mother of
two children.
It is not surprising that by graduation
time, the group had developed an extra­ordinary
camaraderie, even for Thunder­bird.
They have now formed their own
alumni sub-group with Kathy Dorman,
Manager, Market Research Group Staff,
Motorola, as president and Vickie Austin
and Patrick Paterson as newsletter edi­tors.
Rob Kater, one of the E.M.I.M. grad­uates
who owns a landscaping firm, is
working with the Thunderbird grounds
supervisor to establish a study garden
behind Founder's Hall for future E.M.I.M.
students. During their time at Thun­derbird,
the group also started a loan
fund for future E.M.I.M. students. In
addition, several members of the group
have banded together for cooperative
ventures.
"Unlike many M.I.M. students, we
aren't solely focused on landing a job,"
says Austin, "although many may use
the degree as a pivotal piece of the puz­zle
to redirect careers or take on new
ones."
This has already been the case with
John Kenney of Paragon Vision
Sciences, who has been offered a posi­tion
in England with his company; and
Richard Jones of Honeywell, has been
given the opportunity to develop an
international team. •
Before the students
were accepted, their
companies had to agree to
support the program by
releasing the participants
from their job responsibilities
on scheduled class days.
The 24 members of the
first Executive M.I.M.
graduating class pose
on the stairs in the new
World Business
Administration
Building. AU are work­ing
professionals who
graduatedfrom the two­year
program in
August, 1993.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
• Letter to the Editor
Opinion on the Middle East
Alumnus says PLO accord needs U.S.
to broker framework for success in
dealing with issues
Now that the Israeli-PLO
accord has been signed, it is
time for a realistic assess­ment
of how to achieve peace
in the Middle East. The accord itself is
only a beginning, promising much, but
guaranteeing nothing.
Looking at the substance of the deal,
it is actually not much: local government
for the grim slum of Gaza and for the
small West Bank town of Jericho. The
significance of the deal lies in the fact
that there is a deal at all, and in what
may spring from it. One real achieve­ment
is that the Israeli government has
recognized, not just the Palestinian peo­ple,
but also their representative, the
PLO; while the PLO recognizes the exis­tence
of the state of Israel and
renounces the use of violence.
It must have been a giant step for
Arafat who was running the risk of
becoming politically irrelevant in the
Arab world. The fundamentalist move­ment
Hamas, financed by Iran, was
gaining ground in the financial support
of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states,
and the disintegration of the Soviet
Union left the PLO without its principal
supporter on the world stage.
An equally significant yet overlooked
cause for Arafat's decision goes back to
1991 when Abu Iyad a.k.a. Salah Khalaf
was killed. Mr. Khalaf founded the PLO
with Arafat in the 1960s, and was the
chief of intelligence of the PLO and the
mastermind behind much of the PLO
military operation inside and outside
Israel. Khalaf was the long-time confi­dent
and the closest advisor to Arafat.
His assassination left the PLO chairman
politically disoriented and stripped of
his military compas.
Israel, on the other hand, has been
paying an enormous price for its occupa­tion
of the West Bank and Gaza since the
start of the Intifada in 1987. Hundreds of
Israeli soldiers and civilians were killed,
and the financial burden of the occupa­tion
became Ul\iustifiable. The territories
were perceived by many Israelis to be of
little strategic significance for the secu­rity
of Israel. Thus, the historic cere-
10 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1/ 1993
mony at the White House was made pos­sible
by setting aside all the truly con­tentious
issues: borders, settlements,
refugees, and Jerusalem.
IMPLEMENTING THE PEACE
SO what are the next steps towards
implementation? A study by a group of
Harvard economists recommended a
massive infusion of funds in the occu­pied
territories as the sine quo rwn con­dition
for the success of the agreement.
But economic development is often
overstated and it would be a mistake to
view the territories as an economic bas­ket
case that needs to be rescued by the
PLO and the World Bank. The territo­ries
already have a fairly impressive
infrastructure, albeit one in need of
upgrading. Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza are running their own
hospitals and health-care facilities.
They also run a complete educational
system paid for by their own taxes.
Freed from the artificial restraints of the
occupation, the economies of the West
Bank and Gaza are in a good position
for a rapid expansion.
The Palestinians will need a quick
and sizeable infusion of cash, but they
should not wait for the Arab states to
give the bulk of it. Indeed, these states
have a steady record of promising finan­cial
aid and delivering almost none; nor
should they wait for the World Bank to
deliver. They have the opportunity to
quit the politics of complaining and take
charge of their political and economic
destiny by relying on their business
skills developed throughout the world
and by the redirection of the PLO's
$2 billion to $6 billion in assets toward
the territories.
THE ROLE OF THE U.S.
Naturally, economic success is no
more assured than is a political triumph
once Israelis and Palestinians try to turn
a handshake into specific agreements.
This is where the United States should
playa major role. Here, history has a
unique way of repeating itself. It was
under President Richard Nixon, a
by Nassib Ghobril '88
Republican, that Egypt and Israel
reached the 1974 Military Disengage­ment
accord after the October 1973
Arab-Israeli War. Middle East experts,
diplomats and historians agree that it
was the shrewd shuttle diplomacy of
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that
produced the disengagement accord.
This accord laid the groundwork for the
signing of the Israeli-Egyptian Peace
Treaty in 1979 during the Democratic
Carter Administration.
With the historic s igning of the
Israeli-Palestinian peace accord at the
White House, the U.S. returns to a cen­tral
role in the Mideast peacemaking.
President Clinton should seize the
momentum and use the confidence of
both sides to create a conceptual frame­work
for progress. Indeed, only the U.S.
has the credibility to play the brokering
and coordinating role in the ensuing
negotiations and be the guarantor of
any agreements.
In the end, it will be up to the Israelis
and the Palestinians to learn to coexist
despite the major local and regional
obstacles facing them. Yitzhak Rabin
heads a shaky coalition that may at any
time be voted out of power. So does
Yasser Arafat who may be shot out of it,
which would be even worse.
Peace depends on the confidence
that the two sides can mutually create;
at present there is none. Today the
Middle East is at a turning point, but a
long way from being safely turned. The
point is that, for the first time in five
decades, the turning is there to take.
The question is whether the Palestin­ians
and Israelis, with the outside world
looking on, have the courage of their
half-convictions. •
The preceding commentary was sub­mitted
to the Thunderbird Magazine
by Nassib Ghobril '88, a native of
Lebarwn and president of the Chicago
alumni chapter. Nassib is currently
Managing Director for Securitech
International, Inc. Thunderbird
Magazine encourages submission of
alumni vieu;points on significant cur­rent
issues. Send letters to
Thunderbird Magazine, Office of
Communication, 15249 N 59th
Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85306. Letters
may be editedfor style, length and
clarity. Views expressed in the maga­zine
do rwt necessarily reflect those of
the editors or official School policies.
• Faculty Profile
Dynamic Delivery
Professor Dale Davison balances
multiple roles and inspires students
in accounting classes
When students complain
about Professor Dale
Davison, even the com­plaints
sound like compli­ments:
"Why doesn't he teach another
section of intermediate accounting?"
Davison, a twenty-year veteran of grad­uate
and undergraduate level profes­sional
teaching with time out for a stint
in professional accounting, is in big
demand because students say he has
the rare gift of making the sometimes
counter-intuitive and arcane rules of
accounting seem, well, sensible. Non­native
English speakers especially
appreciate Davison's expert stage pres­ence,
his remarkably clear enunciation,
and his crisp, concise explanations of
accounting principles. He also earns
praise for his professionalism, his pre­paredness,
his accessibility out of class,
and his fresh sense of humor: no dusty
old accounting jokes here-Davison
writes his own material.
One reason that there doesn't seem to
be enough of Dale Davison to go around
this semester is that Thunderbird's
newly hatched Executive M.I.M. pro­gram
takes a good share of Davison's
time. Almost every weekend in the fall,
he teaches a section on international
taxation or accounting to the E.M.I.M.
program's non traditional students: "We
have students here that you wouldn't
automatically think of as needing an
international degree-doctors, nurses,
even two landscape architects. But they
know-as we do at Thunderbird-how
small the world really is."
ACADEMICS FOR EXECUTIVES
Between class meetings, Davison's
duties as academic director of the
E.M.I.M. program require his attention
to faculty, curriculum and scheduling
decisions, as well as marketing and
recruiting efforts: "The general reputa­tion
of the program is that it is very rig­orous
... Flip to the end of your flight
magazine and you'll find a dozen places
that, if you send them enough money,
they'll send you a diploma by return
mail. We're on the other end of the spec-trum
from those opportunities." Despite
the program's rigor, which Davison
admits with a mischievous smile "can
be at times a bit stressful for our stu­dents,
" the E.M.I.M. program has
achieved an outstanding student record:
one class of 24 has already graduated,
and two classes totaling 44 are actively
pursuing the M.I.M. Davison attributes
part of this success to the practical
value of the course material: "Some of
our students have found that their situa­tion
on the job is changing rather dra­matically
even as they pursue the
degree. Suddenly they're pulled into the
loop on all the international things that
are going on in their company. "
DOING BUSINESS WITH RUSSIA
In addition to his regular teaching
and administrative duties, Davison has
recently returned from a trip to Russia
to carry out the goals and objectives of
a $500,000 federal grant that Thunder­bird
has received to provide assistance
to a consortium of 20 American busi­nesses
organized by McDonnell Doug­las
Helicopter Company and by
Thunderbird's partner in the grant,
Ecotech International.
Under the terms of the grant, Thun­derbird
is to assist the consortium in
marketing environmental products in
Russia, and to develop joint ventures
and two-way trade with the goal of
increasing US exports. "The beauty of
by Tom Lyons
this arrangement, and the reason for the
grant, is that Thunderbird, through our
international business skills and
Russian skills, can help small American
businesses do business in Russia where
they might lack the financial resources,
the language skills, or the international
expertise to successfully pull it off
alone."
"We had a number of things to
accomplish on our visit to Russia in
order to organize our efforts there. We
needed to investigate legal structures,
banking needs, tax requirements and
tax costs. We also made arrangements
for office space, and made arrange­ments
to establish a communications
link between the Russian office and the
Glendale campus. We established key
working relationships with two Russian
ministries involved with the environ­ment,
and contacted several Russian
environmental groups and enterprises.
In January, we will hire a Russian gen­eral
director for the office, and be in full
operation. "
Professor Davison's involvement in
l(£)ro/essor Davison r amazed me by
achieving the
impossible: He made
me want to study
accounting. "
Dale Davison not
only teaches
accounting, but
also directs the
E.M.I.M. academic
program and is
director for a
half-miUion doUar
government grunt
in the Newly
Independent States.
administrative and
recruiting activities
outside the class­room
indicates his
interest in, and com­mitment
to , Thun­derbird's
future.
Whether he is in
Russia facilitating a
joint venture agree­ment
with another
school , in Boston
representing Thun­derbird
at an MBA
conference, or here on campus entreat­ing
his students to study well and " .. .let
it be the Wharton grad who tries to
spend retained earnings," Davison's
missionary zeal shines through. And he
makes converts wherever he goes. As
one devout marketing student testifies:
"Professor Davison amazed me by
achieving the impossible: He made me
want to study accounting." •
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993 11
• Campus News
From Wake Forest.
to Wales
• •
Seven globalists join Thunderbird faculty
, as top teachers and researchers 'I f Thunderbird were a profes­sional
sports organization, this
season would be touted as an
exceptional recruiting year. We
have among us some of the finest fac­ulty
members in the country whose tal­ents
will become obvious to their
colleagues and students in the coming
months." With those words, Dr. David
Ricks, vice president for academic
affairs, introduced the new faculty
members for the fall 1993 semester.
They come from such schools as
Wake Forest University, the University
of Wales, the University of Kentucky,
Texas Tech University, the University of
Washington, and Dartmouth College.
"Not only are they outstanding teach­ers,"
said Ricks, "but they are also glob­alists
who have made major intellectual
contributions in their fields. Their
research is widely varied and has been
published in some of the finest journals.
They have also written numerous
books, and participated prominently in
their professional organizations."
Curtis E. Harvey, Professor of
World Business and Associate Vice
President for Academic Affairs, is
responsible for the overseas programs
and will teach Fundamentals of
Economics.
Carolina Faculty Development Program
in central Europe.
Dr. Harvey has a B.A. in economics
from the University of California at Los
Angeles, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in eco­nomics
from the University of Southern
California. He has received several
FUlbright lecture, travel and research
grants that enabled him to study in
Romania and Austria. In 1986 he
received the University of Kentucky
Great Teacher award. His publications
include numerous papers and several
books, Coal in Appalachia-An Eco­nomic
Analysis; The Economics of
Kentucky Coal and The Economics of
the U.S. Shipbuilding in the 1970s
(coauthor).
Bodo Schlegelmilch, Professor of
Marketing, previously held the
British Rail Chair of Marketing
at the University of Wales,
U.K., and academic appoint­ments
at the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, and the
University of California at
Berkeley. Being a trained
banker, he worked for
Deutsche Bank and Procter &
Gamble in Germany, and con­sults
for a number of multina­tional
companies. Currently,
he is the Vice President for
J. Stewart Black, Associate Profes­sor
of World Business teaches two sec­tions
of Multinational Business
Management and is director of the
Japan Campus.
Dr. Black comes to Thunderbird from
Dartmouth College where he has been
an assistant professor, teaching organi­zational
behavior and international
management to M.B.A. students at the
Amos Tuck School of Business Admin­istration
since 1988. He has been a visit­ing
professor at the International
University of Japan (fall semester '89,
'90, '91) teaching international business
environments to M.B.A. candidates.
Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth,
Dr. Black was an instructor at Chapman
College and instructor at the University
of California, Irvine.
Dr. Black earned his Ph.D. in adminis­tration
from the University of Califor­nia,
Irvine and a M.S. in organizational
behavior and a B.S. in university studies
from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Black is coauthor of Internation­al
Assignments: Successful Expatria­tion
and Repatriation of Global
Employees. Most of his research has
Most recently he was director of the
International Business Center in the
College of Business and Economics at
the University of Kentucky, a post he
held since 1986. He has been a profes­sor
in the department of economics at
Kentucky since 1969. He has also been a
visiting professor at the University of
Vienna, Austria, and has been project
director, "Internationalizing the
Business College Curriculum," for the
U.S. Department of Education. He has
also been a faculty associate in the
Patterson School of Diplomacy and
International Commerce, the Institute
for Mining and Minerals Research, at
the University of Kentucky; director of
the University of Kentucky Executive
Development Program in Europe; and a
co-director of the University of South
International Membership of Curtis E. Harvey Bodo Schlegelmilch
12 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII / 1 / 1993
the Academy of Marketing
Science. His research focuses on inter­national
marketing, marketing of ser­vices
and business ethics. He is on the
editorial board of various academic
journals and has published his work,
among others, in the Journal of
International Business Studies,
Industrial Marketing Management,
Managerial and Decision Economics,
and the European Journal of
Marketing.
Dr. Schlegelmilch has a degree in
Business Administration from Cologne,
Germany, and received an M.Sc. and
Ph.D. in International Business/
Marketing from Manchester, England.
He is teaching International Marketing
Research.
been in the area of transitions, repatria­tion
and cross-cultural adjustment of
international workers.
P. Candace Deans, Associate
Professor of World Business, has been
named assistant director of the Thun­derbird
CIBER. She is not teaching this
fall, but will offer a course in Wmterim
1994, Global Information Management.
Dr. Deans is an information systems
specialist who comes to Thunderbird
from the School of Business and
Accountancy at Wake Forest University.
Dr. Deans has been assistant professor
at Wake Forest since 1989. She has also
been a visiting assistant professor and
teaching/research assistant at the
University of South Carolina, a lecturer
at East Carolina University and a chem­istry
instructor in the North Carolina
public school system.
Dr. Deans earned her Ph.D. in man­agement
information systems from the
University of South Carolina She holds
an M.B.A. from East Carolina University,
an M.Ed. in science education from
North Carolina State University and a
B.S. in chemistry from the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Her publications include "MIS
Research: A Model for Incorporating
the International Dimension," in the
Journal of High Technology Manage­ment
Research, and a book which she
co-edited, Global Information Systems
and Technology: Focus on the
Organization and Its Functional
Areas.
Thomas I. Selling, Associate Profes­sor
of Accounting, came to Thunderbird
from Wake Forest University's Babcock
Graduate School of Management,
where he has been on the faculty since
1990. He has also been an associate and
assistant professor at the Amos Tuck
School of Business Administration,
Dartmouth College, and a visiting asso-
University, and an M.B.A. and a B.S. in
hotel administration from Cornell
University. He will be teaching two sec­tions
of Cost and Management
Accounting.
J. Donovan Penrose, Associate
Professor of German, arrived at Thun­derbird
this year from the University of
Washington in Seattle where he earned
an M.B.A. in international management
and business policy. Additionally, Dr.
Penrose holds a Ph.D in German studies
from Stanford University, and an M.A.
and B.A., in English and American liter­ature
from Stanford.
Dr. Penrose's teaching experience
includes four years at Gustavus
Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
as an assistant professor of German and
study-abroad advisor; a year as a train­ing
instructor of German at the Defense
Language Institute in San Francisco; a
year as instructor of second- and third­year
German at Menlo College,
Atherton, California; a year as instruc­tor
at Universitat Ttibingen in Germany;
and two years as an English teacher in
Institut Montana, Zug, Switzerland.
Additionally, he has been a research
analyst for Microsoft Corporation in
Munich, Germany, and a University
Lecturer, teaching fellow and preceptor
at Stanford. Dr. Penrose also has some
knowledge of French and Spanish, and
reading knowledge in Ancient Greek,
Old English, Middle High German, Latin
and Swedish.
Kay Mittnik, Assistant Professor of
German, came to Thunderbird at the
beginning of the spring, 1993, semester.
Since 1988, she had been an assistant
professor of German language and liter­ature
at Texas Tech University. Her spe­cialization
was the German novella,
Fin-de-siecle Vienna, and women writ­ers
of Vienna She also was director of
the study-abroad program, which
included an annual 7-week traveVstudy
tour. From 1987-1988, Dr. Mittnik was
an instructor in German and English as
a Second Language at Rice University
and the Goethe Institute, Houston. She
has extensive experience in Austria,
including studying part-time at the
University of Vienna from 1972-1979.
Dr. Mittnik has a B.A. from Furman
University, an M.A. in German from
Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in
J. Stewart Black P. Candace Deans TluYmas I. Selling J. Donovan Penrose Kay Mittnik
ciate professor at the Sloan
School of Management, Massa­chusetts
Institute of Technology.
Additionally, he was a graduate
teaching associate at The Ohio
State University during his Ph.D.
program, a teaching and research
assistant at Cornell, and an
instructor at the School of Hotel
Administration of Puerto Rico.
Dr. Selling recently completed a
one-year appointment as an acad­emic
fellow with the Securities &
Exchange Commission, Office of
the Chief Accountant, in Washing­ton,
D.C.
Dr. Selling has a Ph.D. in
accounting from The Ohio State
,we have among us
some of the finest
faculty members in the
country whose talents will
become obvious to their
colleagues and students in
the coming months. "
Dr. David Ricks
German from Rice University. Her
accomplishments include restructuring
the first-year German program, includ­ing
syllabi, and overseeing graduate
instruction at Texas Tech, and reorga­nizing
the second-year German curricu­lum.
She is co-author of Advanced
German for Musicians and is a mem­ber
of the Modem Language Associa­tion.
Thunderbird also welcomed several
visiting faculty, including two CIA
Officers-in-Residence plus faculty from
Vanderbilt University and Charles
University in Prague, as well as a for­mer
Thunderbird faculty member, Dr.
Carl Frear, who returns as a visiting
professor of marketing. •
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993 13
• Campus News
Thirty at Thunderbird
Duarte and Valdivieso celebrate
three decades of change and challenge
Celebrating 30 years of service
to the Thunderbird commu­nity
are Professor Joaquim
Duarte, Jr., and Professor
Jorge Valdivieso. Duarte is the Dom
Pedro II Professor of Iberian Brazilian
and Lusohispanophone African Studies
in the Department of International
Studies. Valdivieso is professor of
Spanish and chairman of the Faculty
Senate.
Professor Duarte came in 1963 to
enlighten students about the intricacies
of Latin American Studies. Thunderbird
was smaller then, "but still unique and
thorough." Impressed by the motivated
and truly interested students he found,
he stayed and six years later became
chairman of the department, a position
he held for the next 20 years. He
watched I.S. expand thanks to the dedi­cation
and sacrificing spirit of the hand­ful
of professors in its faculty; he was
the catalyst behind its
growth and recognition
as a full-fledged mem­ber
of our tripartite sys­tem.
Professor Duarte
credits three develop­ments
contributing to
his continuing satisfac­tion
with Thunderbird:
the first is the afore­mentioned
growth of
I.S. into its significant
tripartite position; sec­ond,
the creation of the
International Studies
Research Center and
the Dom Pedro II
Center; and lastly, the
Joaquim Duarte
14 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
success of the Thunderbird Newman
Club. He deserves to be very satisfied
with these achievements because he
was the pioneer behind them.
He takes great pride in the modern­ization
of the campus facilities, and
cites last year's conference, Latin
America: A 500-Year Encounter, spon­sored
by Thunderbird in conjunction
with the Pacific Coast Council of Latin
American Studies (PCCLAS). Apparent­ly
members of the PCCLAS, of which
Professor Duarte was president, enjoyed
the new AT&T Auditorium in the World
Business building so much, they wanted
to take it home with them.
Although he feels that Thunderbird is
consistently achieving greater excel­lence,
Professor Duarte desires to see
ever-increasing academic standards,
greater faculty interaction, and the con­tinuing
development of the E.M.I.M. and
the consulting branch of Thunderbird.
by Peggy Mankus
Professor Duarte asks his former stu­dents
to help him celebrate his 30 years
by donating to his favorite projects,
such as the Dom Pedro II Research
Center and the International Studies
Research Center, both of which will be
transferred to the new International
Business Information Centre. He
thanks benefactor, Dr. Thelma Kieck­hefer,
for her generous support of the
Dom Pedro II Chair of Luso-Brazilian
and Hispanic American Studies, and
invites all alumni and friends of
Thunderbird to join her ranks of giving.
DR. JORGE VAlDIVIESO
"Continuous change for the best,"
boasts Dr. Jorge Valdivieso, Professor
of Spanish, when asked about what he
has seen in his 30 years at Thunderbird.
Dr. Valdivieso came to the Glendale
campus in September of 1963 when
only three languages (Spanish, French
and Portuguese) were offered. As
Chairman of the Department of Modem
Languages from 1973-80 he was instru­mental
in introducing Japanese,
Chinese, Arabic, and the basis for the
future Russian program. He also
invested time and effort into expanding
the foreign study options available to
students, initiating the Guadalajara
Program with Dr. Geer, Winterim in
Lisbon and Barcelona with Professor
Duarte, the fIrst dual-degree program
with ESADE and the Exchange Pro­gram
with ICADE in Spain.
Believing strongly that living experi­ence
is crucial to language develop­ment
and cultural awareness, Dr.
Valdivieso continues to encourage each
Thunderbird student to take advantage
of the extensive programs offered. His
obvious focus on the needs and inter­ests
of students as the primary benefi­ciaries
of the Thunderbird experience
has prompted the student body to vote
him Outstanding Professor numerous
times.
Besides growth in his own depart­ment,
the professor notes remarkable
development all over campus from new
facilities to faculty credentials. And the
students have changed, too. Dr. Valdi­vieso
is most impressed by the quality
and commitment of the growing female
population, including many from out­side
the U.S. "(The men) have to com­pete
harder to keep up with them."
Dr. Valdivieso is also serving the
School in his second term as chairman
of the Faculty Senate. He delights in
assisting faculty members to join
• Campus News
Jorge Valdivieso
together to set standards and address
the academic needs of Thunderbird. He
has co-authored three textbooks
(Aprendamos Espanol, Negocios y
Comunicaciones, and Discutiendo
Casos de Negocios) and edited Studia
Medievalia. He was the founding editor
of The Journal of Language for Inter­national
Business, has published over
30 articles in professional journals, and
has presented more than 60 papers in
national and international conferences.
One of Dr. Valdivieso's teaching assis­tants
recent ly compiled a list of stu­dents
who have taken his Advanced
Business Spanish course over the past
25 years. The list numbers more than
1500 graduates! Looking for a gift to
help the professor celebrate his 30-year
anniversary? "(My former students)
know that the best present they can
give me is a letter telling me where and
how they are, and a sample commercial
document from the country they are
working in. I thank them on behalf of
my present students because they are
using (these documents) now." •
Conunencement '93
Honorary degrees granted to
T'bird alum and IBM executive
Athe August 1993 Commence­ment,
Thunderbird granted hon­orary
Doctor of Laws degrees
to James G. Parkel, director of
corporate support programs for IBM,
and Joseph M. Klein '47, retired presi­dent
of Pluess Staufer. Both are mem­bers
of the School's Board of Trustees
and were recognized for extensive ser­vice
to Thunderbird.
Parke I is a founding member of the
Thunderbird World Business Advisory
Council and was its first chairman in
1983. He was elected to Thunder­bird's
Board of Trustees in 1984 and,
through his role with IBM, has gener­ously
assisted the School with dona­tions
of IBM computer equipment for
the Computer Services Center stu­dent
laboratory, the language labs,
and, most recently, for the Multi­media
Center.
Parkel has worldwide responsibili­ties
for corporate contributions
relating to cultural and human ser­vices,
education and university rela­tions.
He is also President and CEO
of the IBM International Foundation.
Joseph M. Klein is currently a
member of the Pluess Staufer board
and consultant to the company. A
member of Thunderbird's first gradu­ating
class in 1947, Klein was the first
Thunderbird alumnus to serve as
chairman of the Board of Trustees
(from June 1983 to November 1986).
His concern for and intimate knowl­edge
of the School's philosophy have
Cynthia Choyce
'53 of Coral Gables
Florida, remi­nisces
over her
Thunderbi1-d class
yearbook with he1-
daughter,
Stephanie
Schneidernuln '93
prior to May,
1993 commence-ment
ceremonies.
made hinl a moving force on the board
since he became a member in 1975, and
an active participant in the board's
work to advance the School.
In the 1980s, Klein endowed a schol­arship
for qualified veterans to attend
Thunderbird. Klein has also been
named an honorary member of the
Thunderbird Alumni Association's
Board of Directors. In 1974 he received
the School's Jonas B. Mayer Outstand­ing
Alunmus Award and the Southern
California Alumni Association Award
for his achieve­ments.
James Parkel (top)
was the featured
speake'/" during
August, 1993 com­mencement
cere­monies
and also
received an hon­orary
doctorate
from Thunderbird.
Joseph Klein '47,
(below) member of
thefirst Thunder­bird
gmduating
class, received an
honora1Y doctorate
at the August, 1993
commencement.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993 15
• Footnotes
Faculty recently
'-' .......... ,... version of the
e :4eslped for individuals
an M.RA. degree, but
JntemaUonal dimension
emmt.ials. The program,
be completed in eight to
~.<fttc~I8, is expected to attract a
••·~ aiI.er of highly qualified stu-
Senate also recently approved
~racultY M.I.M. program. This pro­~
e,nable university professors
wllo do not have a master's degree to
earn the MJ.M Primary targets for the
program are professors at foreign
~Is and U.S. community college
_junior college professors.
CGNSIRUCI10N BEGINS ON NEW CENTRE
COostruction has begun on The Merle
A. Binnchs International Business
Inform8tion Centre (IBIC) scheduled for
completion in mid-summer 1994. The
CeRtre's primary donor is trustee Merle
A. ~ebs '65, founder and chainnan of
Asian Sources Media Group, who has
pledged over $1.3 million towards its
construction.
The mIC will
contain all the
holdings of
the current
library and
will be the
main source
of published
knowledge on
~1JlW 8B)assist in the develop­_
infoJma11ion initiatives, fax­sateUite
communications,
~t>Jisbillg, on-line databases,
networks and electronic
~a!NTI!RHAS
has joined Thunderbird
assistant director of the
_ .. Rt6()JI1I'Ce Center. Fuller has
1IfttS;J~tise in the area of multi­._~
tlfllCU1lty support and was lead
.~14~,of multimedia at Glendale
·ce .. __ College. Recently, he won
_ aiftard as the outstanding innovator
for the Maricopa County schools. Dr.
BeVelb director of the cam­IN,.
miUltil1nedia center, said Fuller "will
_ ..... help in fulfilling our goal of
_&01ilr programs with new tech-
16 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993
~~~:::WWRH UNlVB51Tf OF It
Tb1l1'lderbird 1M a lis Naed a dual
degree agreement wJati the TJDiYetsbiY of
Houston to enable1liluclren to earn both
an MBA and a .. LM. by transferring
certain class credits between the
schools. The new agreement is sJmiJar
to existing arrangements between
Thunderbird and the University of
Arizona and Arizona State University,
said David Ricks, vice president for aca­demic
atJairs.
RENOVATION AND LANDSCAPING
CONTINUE ON CAMPUS
With the start of Glendale's 59th
Avenue widening project this summer,
campus palm trees were relocated from
59th Avenue to various places on cam­pus,
some along Greenway Road, some
near the campus Post Office and some
near the Greenway entrance. Other
campus improvement projects during
the summer included the addition of a
new roof to the main classroom build­ing
and the renovation of the Keyman
Residence Hall suites from double to
single executive rooms. "I" Residence
Hall was renovated from suites to sin­gles
as well, in the same style as the "J"
Executive Residence Hall. The Keyman,
"I" and "J" halls will be used mainly to
house participants in Executive Educa­tion
programs. Classroom 21 was also
renovated this summer with the
removal of existing seats and the addi­tion
of seats similar to those located in
Lecture Halls 53-55. The room was also
refurbished with new carpeting and
paint
ARIZONA DEFENSE CONVERSION
CONFERENCE PLANNED
The Arizona University Consortium
and U.S. Senator John McCain hosted a
luncheon and steering committee meet­ing
of the Arizona Defense Industry
Committee in April, 1993. Participants
met on the Thunderbhd campus to plan
the agenda for the third Arizona
Defense Industry Conference and to
examine the potential impact of defense
cuts on the state and the opportunities
for industry acijustment to the changes.
The conference will examine conver­sion
opportunities, consoHdation and
diversification among Arizona's defense
contractors, and will be attended by a
broad range of distinguished defense
industry representatives.
altECTORNMIIP
tielyn Tti.eoHld retired from her
p .. as , D It vice president for
P _oaneI and secretary of the Board of
'l'rUatees on July 30, 1993. She had
served the SdIOOl for 16 years. Dane J.
Jay has been hired as Thunderbird's
new director of human resources,
which reflectS a change in the office
name from Personnel to Human
Resources. Jay brings more than 20
years of experience in human resources
management to the position, with 12 of
those years in senior corporate manage­ment
level positions with multi-location
domestic and foreign involvement. Dr.
Mischa Semanitzky will assume the
duties of Secretary to the Board of
Trustees.
FIRST HEALTH DEGREE GRANTED
Jamie Sue Blose
was the first recipi­ent
of the new
Master of Inter­national
Health Man­agement
degree,
which was granted
during commence- ~
ment ceremonies in §
August. The degree ~
is designed to pro- ~
vide international
management education for individuals
who already hold a degree in nursing,
pharmacy, or medicine.
BANK ONE fUDGES $100,000 TO NEW
INFORMATION CENTRE
The School recently received a
$100,000 pledge from Bank One,
Arizona for the new ultrarmodem mIC.
Bank One, Arizona, N.A. was fonnerly
Valley National Bank prior to a merger.
Richard Lehmann, chainnan and CEO
of Bank One, Arizona, and Banc One
Arizona Corporation, is a member of
the Thunderbird Board of Trustees.
~GI.,OWIN
DOMJI'OWNPHOENIX
Ja a change from previous years, the
nigbt display of glowing balloons was
held in dowmown Phoenix near the
Arizona Center and the America West
Arena. These two facilities have
become dominant features of a busy
downtown Phoenix nightlife scene, and
the Friday evening event, billed as the
"Desert Glow" attracted considerable
attention for the Thunderbird Balloon
Classic, which occured during the fol­lowing
two clap, Nov. 6-7.
• Footnotes
IBM DONATES EQUIPMENT TO
MULTIMEDIA CENTER
To augment Thunderbird's growing
multimedia program, IBM has donated
multimedia equipment valued at
$86,542. Included are a network server
and seven work stations to be used in
the language instruction program.
James Parkel, IBM director, corporate
support program, facilitated the dona­tion.
He is a member of the Thunderbird
Board of Trustees and a former chair­man
of the World Business Advisory
Council. In 1990-91, IBM donated
$747,000 worth of equipment for the
language labs, computer teaching lab,
and business simulations to the School.
SCHOOL HAS NEW
PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
The Office of Communication
recently finished revising Thunderbird's
promotional video, "Educating for
Global Management." It is currently
available through the campus book­store.
The 12-minute videos are avail­able
in domestic VHS and foreign PAL,
SECAM and French SECAM formats.
SCHOOL COSPONSORS MEXICAN
CONFERENCE ON FINANCE
Thunderbird, Deloitte & Touche and
the North American Free Trade Associa­tion
sponsored a two-day conference in
Mexico City in June on "North
American Finance '93." The conference
addressed critical issues and provided
facts relevant to the changing financial
environment in North America Topics
of discussion included commercial
banking, securities/brokerage, insur­ance,
trade finance, project finance,
investment banking, venture capital and
leasing. Featured speakers and partici­pants
included government officials
from the U.S. and Mexico as well as
senior North American business execu­tives,
industry experts from the major
financial sectors, NAFTA negotiators
and business advisory members. Four
Thunderbird students attended as con­ference
liaisons.
DICK BOSSERT HEADS
COMPUTER CENTER
Dick Bossert has been named the
new director of the Computer Services
Center, including implementation of the
new campus-wide Datatel database
software. He is working to coordinate
the various components and integrate
the systems from a managerial point of
view.
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION HOLDS
INAUGURAL CONSORTIUM PROGRAM
Representatives of the companies in
the Thunderbird International Consor­tium
met on campus in the spring, for
their inaugural management develop­ment
seminar, "Managerial Issues in the
Global Enterprise." The 37 participants
from the eight founding member firms
represented 11 countries.
The Thunderbird International
Consortium I, is a group of eight global
firms that join with Thunderbird in an
executive education partnership. The
program allows firms the opportunity to
acquire focused, tailor-made executive
education for their middle- to upper­middle-
level managers.
The initial membership consists of
eight firms: Amoco Corporation, AT&T,
Scott Paper, VITRO S.A., Honeywell,
Kellogg, Warner Lambert and Fluor
Daniel. No two firms come from the
same industry.
For more information on the Consor­tium,
contact Barbara Carpenter, direc­tor
of the Thunderbird Executive
Training Center, at (602) 978-7822. The
program is under the direction of Dr. Ed
Barrett, vice president for executive
education.
PROF. DEQUENNE RETIRES AFTER •
22 YEARS AT THUNDERBIRD
Professor Robert G.H. Dequenne,
professor of French, Department of
Modem Languages, has retired after 22
years of teaching at Thunderbird. While
here, he not only taught all levels of
French language, but also directed the
Wmterim program in France.
NEW REGISTRAR NAMED
David Van Ness, formerly with
Yavapai Community College, has been
named the new registrar, following Dick
Bossert's move to Computer Services.
The Office of Registrar has been relo­cated
from the Academic Affairs Office
into the Student Services area where it
shares space with the Admissions
Office.
STUDENTS PRODUCE TRADE
CONFERENCE
The student-sponsored 1993 Inter­national
Trade Symposium focused on
three topics: Global Trading Blocs,
Cross-Cultural Marketing, and Small
Business Entrepreneurship under the
title, "Strategies Beyond the Year 2000."
Sixteen industry specialists presented a
variety of viewpoints for the 600 Thun­derbird
students who attended. The
October 22 event was cosponsored by
the International Business Women, the
Associated Student Legislative Council,
and the Mexico Club. The symposium
was free for Thunderbird students.
As a revitalization of the annual
World Affairs Conference (ak.a Inter­national
Business Trends Forum) last
held in 1987, its goal is to augment
classroom learning with real-world
issues. Financial support was provided
by Phoenix-based SynteUect Inc.
ASLC ANNOUNCES NEW PLAN FOR
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
On June 1, Beverly Trbovich, for­merly
with the Foreign Student Office,
became the Associated Students Legis­lative
Council's new office manager.
This new position is one of several
steps toward improving efficiency and
continuity in Thunderbird's student gov­ernment
Some changes that have already
occurred include the elimination of two
salaried positions-Ombudsman and
Publicity Chair-and the addition of
two salaried Das Tor reporters, who
will help ensure full coverage of cam­pus
events in the student newspaper.
Thunderbolt, the ASLC newsletter, has
been eliminated with an agreement
from Das 1br to publish event notifica­tions.
To further enhance communication,
the offices of Dean of Students Steve
Beaver and Joyce Rogers, director of
housing, were moved to the Tower
Building, which has been remodeled
into a student center.
ASLC also intends to increase Thun­derbird's
community involvement by
promoting a more active Volunteer
Services Committee and Outreach
Program. The capstone event of this
effort was InterFest on October 1, 1993,
which attracted more than 800 local
school-children to campus to provide
them with a cultural educational experi­ence
and showcase the cultural diver­sity
of Thunderbird.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1 / 1993 17
Business gift ideas.
Burgundy T'bird briefcase.
Luggage tag
Black notepad portfolio
with embossed logo, regular
size, also in burgundy
Gold business card case
Letter opener with case
Logo paperweight
Pen/pencil set
Red mousepad. also in gray
White/blue logo mug
Blue mug with large gold logo,
also in black, burgundy
$15.95.
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$5.49.
Shahrukh Masud, class of '94, stops by
the Tower Cafe for a cappuccino from
fellow T'birds Brian Vestergaard (cen­ter),
class of '94, and Juan M. Gallego,
class of '93.
Jostens Sportswear front-and-back
flag T-shirt. 100% cotton,
M,L,XL,XXL, $14.98.
Flag sweatshirt also available, $29.98.
Eastpak black tote bag with
Thunderbird logo, multiple compart­ments,
handle and shoulder strap,
also in green, navy, $52.00
Champion original reverse-weave navy
hooded sweatshirt. 90% cottonl10%
polyester, S,M,L,XL, $58.98.
Gear for Sports gray and white
sweatshirt with navy Thunderbird
lettering, 65% polyesterl35% cotton,
S,M,L,XL, $35.98.
T'bird Karen Kali, class of '93, shares a
word/picture language book with
Ashley Stamper, class of 2013, in the
bookstore's expanded language/
reference section.
Champion blue sweatshirt with
Thunderbird logo and lettering in yel­low/
white, 50% cottonl50% polyester,
S,M,L,XL, also in gray, $26.98.
Champion gray sweatpants with
yellowlblack Thunderbird lettering,
5()o,6 cottonl50% polyester,
S,M,L,XL, $24.98.
I Can Learn French, from Passport's
Pull-Tab Language Books, $12.95.
Kids' rugby-style blue/gray
Thunderbird sweatshirt from
Third Street Sportswear, $17.98.
Matching gray athletic shorts. $13.98.
Both in 50% cottonl50% polyester,
children's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
Champion reverse-weave gray
sweatshirt (left) with navy
Thunderbird logo, 89% cottonlll%
polyester & rayon, S,M,L,XL, $41.95.
Bobbie Boyd, director
of alumni relations, and
Stephen Beaver, assis­tant
vice presidentJ
dean of students, enjoy
coffee and conversa­tion
in the student-run
Tower Cafe.
Gear For Sports
tJi-color Thunderbird
sweatshirt in 65%
polyester135% cotton,
S,M,L,XL, $39.98.
Jostens Sportswear
black T-shirt with flags
encircling globe above
gold Thunderbird
lettering, 1000A> cotton,
S,M,L,XL, $13.98.
Elaine Massey and Sanjiv Baphna,
class of '94 T'birds, browse the
bookstore's apparel area
MY Sport gray sweatshirt has
turquoise Thunderbird lettering and
logo, outlined in navy, 90% cotton/lOOA>
polyester, S,M,L,XL,XXL, $29.99.
Champion turquoise shorts with
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compacted cotton, S,M,L,XL, also in
navy/green/yeliow/gray, $22.98.
White Thunderbird T-shirt with five
flags and kachina logo from Jostens
Sportswear, 100% cotton,
S,M,L,XL, also in gray, $13.98.
Same pattern available in white
sweatshirt, $21 .98.
Versatile Gear for Sports natural
jacket with dark brown coliar, subtle
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inner pockets, adjustable cuffs,
1000A> cotton sand-washed fabric,
cotton chambray lining,
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Jacket also available in white nautical
style with navy coliar, lightweight
poly-cotton waterproof poplin, navy
lettering, S,M,L,XL,XXL, $84.98.
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• Alumni Event By Jennifer Erickson
A Living Legend dential election, he again was elected
to the Senate in 1968, 1974 and 1980.
He resigned from the U.S. Senate
January 2,1987.
({I've had a great affection for your
institution for many, many years. " ON CHINA AND TAIWAN:
One of the best examples of what a
free government can do is found on the
island of Taiwan. If mainland China
does away with the communist govern­ment,
my prophecy is that within 20
years, China will be the leading eco­nomic
power in the world and will be
the leading military power also. Is that
bad? No, I don't think it's going to be
bad. If we look now at the future of the
economics in our country, you'll find
that the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean
contains the economic future for
America. Wherever you go around the
perimeter of our ocean, you find grow­ing
economies-economies based upon
free enterprise, based upon ingenuity. I
would look forward to a world that has
a dominant force living on the mainland
of China.
A84, the wit and wisdom of
"Arizona's favorite son" is as
sharp as ever. Longtime friend
of Thunderbird and consum­mate
politician, Barry Goldwater shared
his candid views on the world, politics,
and his life with the Thunderbird com­munity
on a steamy August First
Tuesday evening at the Arizona Bilt­more
in Phoenix under the auspices of
the Phoenix Alumni Chapter. Following
are excerpts of his comments:
ON POLITICIANS:
You asked me to speak about the
world, and I'm going to attempt to, but
I'm only speaking my own mind,
as a retired politician. You get a
retired politician's mind to
unscramble, and a hell of a lot of
things come out that maybe
shouldn't!
ON BILL CLINTON:
People ask me almost every
day, "What do you think of
President Clinton?" Let's give this
young man a chance. I happen to
be a very strong, conservative
Republican and I think he's turn­ing
out to be quite a conservative
Democrat. I think that the man
20 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
has to be given another few months
before we can definitely say he's doing
right or he's doing wrong.
Goldwater first held public office as
Councilman, City of Phoenix, from
1949-1952, while he was president of
his family's business, Goldwater's,
Inc., in Phoenix. In 1952, he was
elected to the u.s. Senate, representing
Arizona. He served continuously in
the Senate from 1952-1965, when,
because he had been nominated by the
Republican Party as its candidate for
President of the United States, he chose
not to run a concurrent campaign for
his Senate seat. Defeated in the Presi-
Erik Myhrberg '89, pres­ident
of the Phoenix
Chapter of the Thunder­bird
Alumni Associa­tion,
chats with former
Senator Barry Gold­water,
who spoke to a
capacity crowd at the
Arizona Biltmore under
the auspices of the
Phoenix Thunderbird
group. Karen Culver '87
(above) presents a
Thunderbird t-shirt to
Senator Goldwater
foUowing his speech.
Senator Goldwater was a key
participant in the first Thunder­bird
Statesman's Series, "Leader­ship
in Global Understanding,"
in 1991, which focused on
Taiwan. An active voice for the
Republic of China on Taiwan, he
helped shape a law known as the
Taiwan Relations Act of 1979
which replaced diplomatic recog­nition
with statutory recogni­tion
of the nation.
ON HIS MOST
ADMIRED PEOPLE:
The man I think I would put at
the head of my list would be
Winston Churchill. I have great
admiration for his background,
for his ability, his wonderful abil­ity
to express himself, and his
ability to look forward and tell
the world what was coming. He
saved England and I think he
saved the world. There are many
others, Chiang Kai-shek-a man
that not many people knew, and I
had the pleasure of knowing him
probably better than most peo­ple.
I used to fly airplanes for
him. I know that one flight I
made for him, he had his own C-
47 that he wanted me to land at
Taipei. Well, there wasn't a land­ing
strip over there but there was
a road, so I landed the old air­plane
on the road. I was a great
admirer of Ike Eisenhower. With his
ability to put people together-[to] put
General Bradley in the same tent with
General Montgomery and have them
come out smiling at each other-the
war was won.
A prolific pilot, Goldwater served in
the u.s. Army Reserves and u.s. Air
Force, retiring after 37 years of service
in 1967 as a major general, USAFR.
He logged more than 15,000 flying
hours in more than 160 types of air­craft.
He was chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee from 1982-
1986. Senator Goldwater is now
retired and lives in Scottsdale,
Arizona.
ON THE FEDERAL DEFICIT:
There's only one answer to balancing
the budget, that's the same answer that
you and I have-you try to spend within
your income. Until the time comes
when we determine that we're not going
to build every federal building, every
mile of road, every new this or new that
that everybody wants, until we really
say "no," we're not going to balance the
budget. And let me tell you another
prophecy, if that budget is not well-bal­anced
within five to seven years, the
country can be bankrupt within ten.
ON THUNDERBIRD:
I've had a great affection for your
institution for many, many years. During
World War II, I served out at Luke Air
Force Base as an instructor, and my
commanding general was Barton Kyle
Yount, who was then commander of the
6th training division which was head­quartered
in Santa Ana, California. I'll
never forget one day after the war was
over, I got a phone call from General
Yount. "I just bought Thunderbird Num­ber
1 and I'm going to make a school
out of it," [he said]. I thought, "Well, he's
really slipped his mind." "And I want
you to be a member of the board," [he
added]. And it's been my privilege and
honor to serve on that board. We're very
proud of the institution; there's no place
that I go-and I've been over the whole
world-that I'm not asked questions
about the school.
Barry Goldwater served on the
Thunderbird Board of Trustees from
March 21,1949 until March 15, 1985,
when he was nominated to the Board
of FeUows. He resigned from the Board
of Trustees June 7, 1985. The school
awarded him an honorary doctorate of
international law degree in 1984. •
Thunderbird in Europe
Open houses, alumni reunion promote
Thunderbird presence in Europe
Thunderbird hosted three open
houses in Europe to introduce
prospective students to the
School and to promote Thun­derbird
to European corporations and
organizations. Alumni were encouraged
to bring business colleagues and recom­mend
individuals to be invited. The
meetings attracted more then 500 peo­ple
and provided good contacts for the
Career Services Center
and the Admissions
Office.
Barcelona Spain was
the site for the first of
the three open houses
on June lO at the Hotel
Meli Barcelona. To coin­cide
with the Board of
Trustees and World
Business Advisory
Council meetings in
Archamps the following
week, another recep­tion
was held in
Geneva, Switzerland on
June 16 at the Hotel des
Bergues. Finally, in con­junction
with the Euro­pean
Alumni Reunion,
the third open house
was held on June 17 in
Munich, Germany at
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten.
President Herberger
hosted all three events
and representatives
from the Thunderbird faculty and
administration attended.
Last year, several alumni attending
similar open houses were instrumental
in helping the Career Services Center
locate nationals within their companies,
leading to follow-up meetings later in
the year. In addition, two job offers
resulted from a recruiting visit on cam­pus
last fall from Procter & Gamble,
Germany. A data base of European cor­porate
contacts is being developed that
can be used for admissions, internships,
hiring graduates, and executive educa­tion.
•
Peter Henggeler, a
member of the
Thunderbird World
Business Advisory
Council, visits with
an attendee during
the reception at the
Archamps Campus
near Geneva.
Henggeler is senior
manager, estate and
tax planning, Bank
Leu, in Geneva.
Mike Klesh '82 was
chairman of the Thun­derbird
European
Reunion held in
Munich in June. The
event was attended
by nearly 400 alumni
and guests.
Carleen Kerttula
'93, intern at the
Archamps Campus,
Paige Vrancken '93,
and Dick SneU,
chairman of the
Thunderbird Board
of Trustees, are
shown during a
reception hosted by
Thunderbird in
Munich. The Board
held its June meet­ing
in Geneva, dUT­ing
which they
visited the
Thunderbird
Campus in
Archamps.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1/ 1993 21
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Wick and Orr team up
for 1993-94 leadership
TAA ANNUAL MEETING REPORT
Seven people were elected to the Thunderbird Alunmi
Association (TAA) Board of Directors at its annual meeting
held October 2 at The Pointe at Tapatio Cliffs resort in
Phoenix, AZ. Re-elected to serve a second three-year term
were Maarten W. Fleurke '79, Stephen K. Orr '79 and H.
Gene Wick '60. Elected as new board members were
Joseph O'Neill '80, Richard Ragsdale '67, Mike Santellanes
'60 and Martha Van Gelder-Gypton '88. Leaving the board
after two consecutive three-year terms were Jack Donnelly
and Peggy Peckhanl; and after one term, Bryan Manning.
(Donnelly now serves on Thunderbird's Board of Trustees.)
TAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT
H. Gene Wick '60 was elected president and Stephen K.
Orr '79 chairman of the TAA Board of Directors for the
1993-94 year. As president, Wick will assume the adminis­trative
responsibilities of board management, including
committee recruitment.
Wick, a 1989 recipient of the Jonas Mayer Distinguished
Alumnus Award, brings to his presidency a 31-year interna­tional
career in manufacturing management.
Upon retirement from R. J. Reynolds as vice president of
operations worldwide in 1989, Wick relocated to the
United States where he joined the Thunderbird Alunmi
Association Board of Directors, taking an active role on its
Strategic Planning Committee and incorporating faculty
into homecoming activities and chapter progranlffiing
while chairing the Continuing Education Committee.
Orr, a former ASLC president, was last year's TAA
Board president. During his 1992-93 presidency he concen­trated
his efforts on broadening the association's strategic
relationship with the School's Board of Trustees and its
communication with Thunderbird administration.
BOARD COMMITTEE NEWS
During committee meetings held October 1-3, the TAA
board of directors reported on the 1992-93 results of its
current five-year plan.
Association Development/Chapter Relations: An
Alumni Directory will soon be available to assist alunmi in
chapter development, outreach and community service.
Student Recruitment: Recruitment programs were
conducted in Moscow, Santa Fe de Bogata, Colombia and
other cities. 450 Alunmi Educational Counselors (AECs)
contributed their services in 60 countries around the world.
Continuing Education: International business lec­tures,
seminars and forums enriched programs at several
chapters. Faculty seminars have been added to the
School's homecoming activities.
Career Development: Drake Beam Morin, Inc. career
development workshops were offered at several chapters.
The TAA Board voted that up to $10,000 of funds earned
through its Bank One affinity credit card be distributed for
student internships that are now non-paid.
Fund Development: Six individual alunmi campaigns,
combined with the TAA's 100% Participation Campaign,
have raised $600,000 to date towards the new Merle
Hiruichs International Business Information Centre (lBIC).
"Working through the TAA communication network and
these five elements of our strategic plan we have formed a
base for the participation of alunmi," said Wick. "Our focus
for the coming year is to promote and expand this base to
achieve alunmi participation in support of the school's stu­dents,
faculty and administration."
22 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
ARIZONA
Phoenix
The Phoenix Chapter hosted for­mer
U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater as
a speaker (see story on pg. 20), pro­duced
a new business card directory,
photo exchange, and chapter year­book
and ran a 100% participation
campaign.
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
The well-attended annual meeting
of L.A.-TAA accomplished much,
including voting in new board mem­bers,
passing proposed bylaws, and
establishing the new address:
Thunderbird Alunmi, 12021 Wilshire
Blvd. #445, Los Angeles, CA 90025.
Orange County
The 1993 Winetasting Tour in
Temecula brought Tbirds from sev­eral
graduating classes together with
the L.A. and San Diego Chapters. The
day started with a Champagne
Brunch at Culbertson's Winery and a
guest speaker, Dean Richard
McDowell of the School of Business
and Economics at Chapman
University. Dean McDowell spoke on
"The Impact of Trade on Southern
California's Economic Recovery."
The group then moved across the
road to a private educational tour
and winetasting at Calloways
Vineyard.
Sacramento
The Sacramento Chapter sent out
a clever questionnaire to better serve
its alunmi. Contact Robert Joy,
(916) 676-9114 for more information
or results.
San Diego
Twenty-five people participated in
the TAA-San Diego Chapter's first
cultural seminar on "Cultural
Nuances That .Can Make or Break a
Business Deal." Professor Corrigan
of Thunderbird's Department of
Modem Languages, and Eric A.
Denniston '80, Chapter President, led
the two interactive discussion
groups. Participants spent the day
in1mersed in the Spanish language
while discussing how cultural issues
such as religion, family, education,
managerial styles and employee con­trol
affect the way business people in
Mexico and the U.S. approach their
work.
COLORADO
"From Russia with Love: A
Country on the Move, But to
Where?" Dr. Tucker Hart Adams,
chief economist for Central Banks of
Colorado, was the guest speaker at
the August First Tuesday. Her activi­ties
include analyzing economic
activity in this country and overseas.
Having recently traveled across
Russia by train, she was uniquely
positioned to talk about the chal­lenges
and opportunities facing this
proud and great land.
The First Tuesday of July
found 7"birds in Moscow at
Rosie O'Grady's, an Irish Pub
one kilometer from the
Kremlin. Photo courtesy of
Maarten Fleurke '79.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Networking Gala ill, sponsored
by WMBA, the Wharton Club of
Washington, and the National
Economists Club, was held at Club
Desiree, Four Seasons Hotel, on
September 10th. The event featured
networking listing. For the past ten
years, the D.C. Alumni Chapter has
been part of an informal consortium
of alumni groups known as the
Washington Management and
Business Association (WMBA).
Other participating graduate schools
of business and management include
Chicago, Columbia, Cornell (Fuqua),
Dartmouth (Amos Tuck), Harvard,
INSEAD (France), Northwestern
(Kellogg), Maryland, MIT (Sloan),
Pennsylvania (Wharton), Stanford,
Virginia (Darden) and UCLA. WMBA
provides member groups with a
larger and more 'diversified calendar
of activities and guest speakers.
Please contact Brian Marshall,
Thunderbird representative to the
WMBA, with any ideas for guest
speakers: (202) 293-5580 after 6:30
p.m. Back by popular demand, the
annual summer picnic is to be held
September 25th at Lydia Middleton's
residence in Great Falls, Virginia.
GEORGIA
Atlanta
Atlanta chapter First Tuesdays
take place at Prince Of Wales (1144
Piedmont Rd.) and have recently
featured local Tbirds presenting
their entrepreneurial experiences.
ILLINOIS
Chicago
Chicago alumni enjoyed a variety
of spring and summer red and white
wines from various locales around
the world this July at Sam's Wines
and Liquors of Chicago. The wines
were introduced and described by a
wine-tasting professional staff. In
May, chapter leadership was
assumed by Nassib Ghobril and
David Reed. Any questions or ideas
should be directed to Nassib at
(312) 380-6253 (h) or David at
(708) 690-3596.
NEW YORK
A new, permanent location for
New York First Tuesdays has been
established at the John Barleycorn
(209 East 45th Street, between 2nd
and 3rd Avenue). They now enjoy
their own space, bar, tunes and
complimentary hot hors d'oeuvres.
Connecticut now has an active
sub-chapter. Contact Isabel and
Jon Morales, (203) 454-8630, for
more information and to get on
the mailing list.
OHIO
Cincinnati-Columbus-Dayton
Alumni from all over southwestern
and central Ohio spent August 7th
near Morgan's Canoe Livery, canoe­ing
and picnicking on the scenic
Little Miami River. Early in the Sunl­mer
25 Cincinnati Tbirds attended a
Reds game outing in one of the
luxury skyboxes.
OREGON
Special thanks go to Steve Porter
of the Portland Chapter for organiz­ing
a Tbird rendezvous at a Zoo Jazz
concert this year. Several weather­hearty
folks managed to find each
other and enjoy the music. Thanks
also to Steve Goffena, Jeff
Gunzelman, Dave Benevento and
Ron LaGraff for a classy northwest­ern
salmon bake. Following a suc­cessful
fishing expedition, these
Tbirds invited everyone at First
Tuesday to attend the salmon feast.
Head Of The Class
Manhattan T'birds
gather in Chinatown
at the Silver Palace
in January 1993.
(Back row l-r)
Deborah Camper­Sugiyama
'89,
Flavio Sugiyama '90,
Pam Mitchell '89,
Diane Beny '89,
Steve O'RoU1'"ke '89,
Tracy PenweU '89,
Jorie Ewald,
Christian BlackweU
'88, Fei Wu '89,
Cur-tis Lenox '89,
and unknown.
(FTont TOW l-r)
Kathy Askew, Barney
Lehrer '89, unknown,
Jeanne and Phil
Turano, and Karin
Hoerhold '89.
Photo courtesy of
Flavio Sugiyama.
Located just ten minutes from the American Graduate School of
International Management, this small, luxury hotel is at the gateway to Northern
Arizona's scenic wonders like the Grand Canyon and the red rocks of Sedona. It's also
next door to Metrocenter, the state's largest shopping mall with over 200 stores, 36
restaurants and 17 theaters. Hotel Westcourt features a pool, spa, lighted tennis and
Health Club, along with dining and nightly entertainment in Trumps Bar &: Grill.
Ask about preferred rates for AGSIM friends and families. Call 800/858-1033.
~
HOTEL WESTCOLJRT
At Metrocemer, 1-17 &: Peoria Ave . • 10220 N. Metro Parkway East, Phoenix AZ. 85051
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1 / 1993 23
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Events
December 6-9
International Council
for Innovation in Higher
Education ConJerence
December 17. 1993
Commencement
Speaker: Michel Fribourg,
Chairman oj the Board
Continental Grain Company
January 3- 20. 1994
Winterim on campus
For information, call
(602) 978-7210 or
FAX (602) 439-5432
January 3-15. 1994
Winterim in Washington,
D.C.
For information, call
(602) 978-7210 or
FAX (602) 439-5432
February 27-March 5. 1994
"Finance, Accounting and
Control
for Oil and Gas Company
Managers"
Thunderbird Campus
A seminar for executive education
For information, call
(602) 978-7822 or
FAX (602) 439-4851
March 20-26. 1994
''Advanced Management
Program for Agribusiness
Industry Managers"
Thunderbird Campus
A seminar for executive education
Fm· information, calt
(602) 978-7822 or
FAX (602) 439-4851
April 28-29. 1994
"Population Migration:
Crisis in the Western
Hemisphere" Conference:
Campus 01fices will be closed
Dec. 22-26 and Dec. 30-Jan. 3 Jor
the holidays.
24 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
Five out oj seventy
Foreign Service
Executive 01ficers
attending a 1993
conJerence oj the
u.s. Agency Jor
International
Development
(USAlD) in
Baltimore, MD,
Jound they had
something in com­mon
- they were
Thunderbirds.
(Top to bottom)
Myron Tomasi '57,
USAIDIHungary;
Neil Kester '87,
USAIDIKenyaj
Chuck Drilling
'85, USAIDlHaiti;
Judy Shane '78,
USAIDlBotswana;
and Neal
Meriwether '78,
USAlDllndia.
Photo courtesy oj
Neil Kester.
TEXAS
DallaslFort Worth
Six Dallas/Fort Worth T'birds
attended a Sunday brunch to learn
about the community service objec­tives
of the Texas-Kazakhstan
Alliance, and many feasted on
German cuisine at historic New
Braunfels after a day of tubing fun
and sun at Rockin' R River Rides.
Houston
For T'birds on the north side of
Houston, there is now a monthly
First Thursday happy hour. Location
is Matthias' Restaurant (3755 FM
1960 West). First Tuesdays for the
rest of the Houston area are now on
a floating schedule. For more infor­mation
contact Melinda Guravich:
(w) (713) 621-5661,
(h) (713) 952-5452.
San Antonio
The San Antonio Chapter turned
September's First Tuesday into a
winetasting event at Boardwalk
Bistro, The Wine Shop.
Phoenix, "The
Home" Chapter,
pictured here at
Mother Tuckers,
usually enjoys
40 to 50 people at
First Tuesday
events.
WASHINGTON
The Washington State TAA is hard
at work making plans to match the
recent success of the Washington
State Scholarship Drive (over $4,200
raised so far) with activities such as
the T'bird Reception, the Annual
Tbird Summer Picnic (with an
incredible turnout considering it
poured rain the whole time), and the
Tbird Softball Team. A reminder
goes to anyone looking for T'bird
Tuesday meetings on the Eastside:
starting in October they will begin
meeting at The New Jake
O'Shaughnessey's at the Bellsquare
Mall.
GERMANY
FrankJurt
The Frankfurt chapter will er\ioy
a very special T'bird Tuesday on
October 12, 1993. To be held at
Volkswirt (near the "Alte Oper"), the
special guest will be Brian Bates,
Thunderbird Dean of AdmiSSions,
who has invited prospective
students to join in the festivi­ties.
Also noteworthy,
Thunderbird is being featured
in the prestigious MBA
Studium published by
the Staufenbiel.
PUERTO RICO
San Juan Tbirds met with
Mr. Tim Weaver, Assistant
Director of Internship
Education, during his recruit­ing
trip to Puerto Rico.
SINGAPORE
Singapore Tbirds
gathered at the home of
Chris Fussner '82 for an
American style barbecue
to celebrate July Fourth.
The event was well attended,
with approximately 50
people (Tbirds, family
members, and guests)
present.
Photo courtesy oj
chapter pTesident
Erik Myhrberg '89.
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• Updates
1947 -1953
Morgan Bodie '47 is retired from his position
as owner of Carmany & Company. He lives in
Baltimore, Maryland. WIlbur R. Marisa '47
was recently on a dig in the Biblical city of
Murisa at the invitation of the Israeli govern­ment.
He lives in Ventnor City, NJ. Floyd E.
Lingle '49 is now retired. He lives in
Turramurra, Australia Frank F. Mordecai '49
is retired and self-employed in commodity
investment. He lives in Virginia Beach, VA.
Robert Plazibat '50 is retired and living in
West Bloomfield, Ml James L. Bastable '52 is
retired and lives in San FranciSCO, CA. George
W. Liddicoat '52 is self-employed with
Liddicoat's Marketing. He and his wife, Mary Jo,
live in Palo Alto, CA. H. Ted Withers '52 is the
executive vice president and director of sales
for Century Financial & Associates. He lives in
Los Angeles, CA. Benson I. Hattem '53 is the
affinnative action officer for the San Francisco
Redevelopment Agency, an urban renewal orga­nization.
He lives in Tiburon, CA. F. L.
Hubbard Jr., '53 is a registered investment
advisor. He and his wife, Margery, live in San
Diego, CA. Petter Svenkerud '53 is the vice
president and part owner of a lumber wholesale
and distribution firm. He lives in Huntington
Beach, CA.
REUNION
1954 November. 1994
Gardner W. Fulton is the exclusive represen­tative
for sales in Puerto Rico for U. Z.
Engineered Products. He lives with hls wife,
Angela, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Joseph E.
Rubay is retired from his position as chlef
executive officer of Rubay & Rubay. He
and his wife, Jan.ice, live in Danville, CA.
1955 -1963
Arthur L. Ortiz '55 is president and chlef
executive officer for Santa Fe Chili Inc. He lives
in Albuquerque, NM. W. F. Wassmann '55 is
the general manager for Franlchem S. A. locat­ed
in Mohandessin Egypt. Roy W. Young '55 is
self-employed as an engineering and business
consultant. He lives and works in Glendale,
California Robert Fambrini '56 is retired and
lives in Satellite Beach, FL. Robert A. Ash '57
is the international director for JAMO Inc., a
finn manufacturing construction materials. He
and hls wife, Jul.ia, live in Bogota, Colombia
Edward Botsford '57 is retired from Bandaq
do BrasiJ Ltda He lives in Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Vincent F. Fragano '57 is the general manag­er
for Tem1inal SRI., a business specializing in
fast food restaurants. He lives with his wife,
Lilia, in Asuncion, Paraguay. David B. Ryan
'57 is employed by A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
He lives in Modesto, CA. John C. Temple­Raston
'57 is employed by the Newspaper
Association of America He lives in Tiburon,
CA. Theodore Weisenburger '57 is an ESL
teacher for Rio Salado Commwtity College. He
lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona Stuart D.
Brolly '58 is a senior staff engineer at
Lockheed Missile & Space Co. He and IUs wife,
Betty, live in Santa Cruz, CA. Joaquin Gil del
Real '58 is retired. He lives in Panama City,
Panama William Rees '58 is the executive
vice president for Montana Technology
Companies. He lives in Butte, MT. Donald H.
Schmoldt '58 is d.irector of marketing and pul>­licity
for the Morale, Welfare and Recreation
Squadron of Seymour Johnson AFB in
Goldsboro, NC. Recently, he was a full-tinle vol­wlteer
press aide for the 52nd Presidential
Conunittee. He lives in Goldsboro, C. Larry
Basso '59 is the sales manager of Hughes
Network System, a telecommwtications compa­ny.
He lives in Houston, TX. Gary Sisler '59 is
president of Dade Shelters special.izing in hurri­cane
shelters. He and IUs wife, Barbara, live in
Miami, FL. Earl M. Ward '59 is the
president/owner of A.FS Associates, an import
and distribution business. He lives in
Cincinnati, OH. Robert M. Ballenger '60 is a
department head for marketing and manag~
ment at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. He
lives in Gansevoort, NY. Robert L. Brannon
'60 is the cltief executive officer of Fornlula
Technology Inc., a manufacturer and distributor
of commercial cleaning supplies. He and his
wife, Marilyn, live in Atlanta, GA. Neal Justin
'60 is the owner/president of Justin's
WaterWorld, a water theme park and Justin's
RV Park. He lives in Tucson, AZ. Thomas A.
Perrodin '60 is retired and living in Tucson,
AZ. Paul L. Reiss '60 is a managing partner of
the Corporate Finance Associates whlch pro­vides
financial assistance to ntiddJe market
businesses. His office is in Danbury, cr. John
J. Ross '60 is the vice president of College
Connections, a consulting firm based in New
York, NY. David I. Wallace '60 is the manager
of special markets with Taylor Made Office
Systems Inc., a copier and fax distributor. He
lives in Walnut Creek, CA. Kenneth Bennett
'61 is vice president, ntilitary markets, for W. D.
Warren Rack Jobbing KG. He lives with his
wife, Ursula, in Dreieich, Gemlany. James
Black '61 is the general manager with Bristol­Myers
Squibb Co. He and his wife, Marina, live
in Buenos Aires, Argentina Mark D. Moriarty
'61 is the deputy country representative for
Catholic Relief Services. He and his wife, Beba,
live in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia James B.
Patterson '61 is self-employed by Tread
Lightly Limited, a travel company. He lives in
New Preston, cr. Jack S. Beldon Jr. '62 is
chaimlan and general manager of Goodyear
Great Britain Ltd. He lives in Wolverhampton,
England. Ernest Bruss '62 is the managing
d.irector of Lewinger Hanillton Business
Investment Opportwtities. He lives in
Albuquerque, NM. Norris M. Cole '62 is
retired from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He
lives with his wife, Juditll, in Forsyth, MT.
Brian E. Lynch '62 has retired from his posi­tion
as the director of international business
development for Loral Defense System. He and
his wife, Jane, live in Glendale, AZ. Kevin J .
McMailon '62 is a senior vice president and
trust officer at First Virginia Bank, Southwest.
He lives in Salem, VA. Chuck Rensfleld '62 is
self-employed in his advertising (print media)
business. He lives in Escondido, CA. Laszlo I.
Belenyessy '63 is a medical doctor. He lives in
Los Angeles, CA. Glenn H. Glad '63 is retired
and works as a consultant. He lives in Bayonet
Point, FL. Patrick E. Partington '63 is retired
and lives in Upland, CA. Michael R. Smith '63
is a sales manager for Elof Hansson, a forest
products company. He lives in Riverside, cr.
David R. Wilson '63 is the owner of Highland
Enterprises, Inc. He lives in Charlevoix, Ml
REUNION
1964 Nove mber. 1994
Pierre Debbaudt is manager of financial sales,
Latin America, for SciTex America Corp. He
lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Michael Z. Frueh­wirth
is retired and lives with his wife,
Maudene in 1'uJwn Pueblo, Mexico. Gene R.
Hovey is the director of the American Appraisal
Association, Inc. He lives in Maidenhead
Berkshire, England. Edward R. Maldonado is
retired from Ole U.S. Departnlent of Conuncrcc.
He lives in Decatur, TX. David D. Ma is a prod­uct
manager for J. I. Case Co. He lives in
Racine, WI. Michael J. McTighe is deputy
council for tile State of New YorklDepartment
of Social Services. He lives in Delmar, NY.
1965 -1968
John W. Avard '65 is employed in the com­mercial
service of the U.S. Department of
Commerce. He lives in Kraainem, Belgium.
Bailey Nichols '65 is the senior vice president
of operations for S. L Waber Inc. He and hls
wife, Elisabeth, live in Green Valley, AZ. Ralph
E. Olson '65 is the president for a commodity
trading-export business. He lives in Salt Lake
City, lIT. H. Kenneth Palmer '65 is the manag­er
of private banking for the Riyadh Bank. He
lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Terence F.
Thomas '65 is managing director for
Meespierson Capital Management (Far East)
Ltd. He and his wife, Carol Thomas '65, live in
Hong Kong. William W. Venable, Jr. '65 is
senior vice president, banking, for Societe
GeneraJe Bank in New York, NY. He lives in
Rye, NY. Joseph F. Burke '66 is the cltief advi­sor
on industrial exports for Louis Berger
International Inc. He lives in Quito, Ecuador.
Jon C. Dyer '66 is the president of Preparados
EFEN SA do CV, a fast food business. The busi­ness
is located in Guadalajara, Mexico. Larry L.
Gornall '66 is the vice president of finance for
TRW Vehlcle Safety Systems, Inc. He lives in
Rochester, MI. Gerald H. Greene '66 is presi­dent
of Eastman Kodak & Company's Brazilian
operations. He lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. James
H. Koessler '66 is self-employed in the field of
investments. He and hls wife, Eva, live in
Billings, MT. Noel E. Lang '66 is the president
of Lang Commercialinlport and Export Co. He
and his wife, Patsy Yvonne, live in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Stephen Swenerton '66 is the vice
president of retail sales with Broan
Manufacturing Co., whlch specializes in residen­tial
ventilation products. He lives with his wife,
Pam, in Hartford, WI. Frederik O. Crawford
'67 is d.irector of National Commercial Bank. He
lives in London, England. Robert S. Eichfeld
'67 is a vice president for Citibank N. A. He and
his wife, Lore, live in Bombay, India Thomas F.
Gaffney '67 is self-employed in the financial
services business. He and his wife, Nina, live in
East Sussex, United Kingdom. Robert A.
Hopper '67 is the d.irector of international sales
for The Genie Company, a company specializing
in shop vacuums and access controls. He lives
in Canton, OH. Gary L. Mallon '67 is self­employed
in consulting. He lives in Roswell, GA.
Igor I. Mamantov '67 is the vice president of
S. A. Holdings, Inc., a telecommwtications firm.
He and his wife, Patricia, live in Dallas, TX.
William J. Messett '67 is the president of
Messett Associates Inc., an executive search
fum for top management firms in the United
States and Latin America He lives in Miami, FL.
Stein Owre '67 is the d.irector, international
sales and marketing, for The Quill Co. Inc.,
wltich manufactures fine writing instruments.
He lives with his wife, Deanne, in Sntithfield, RL
Timothy Paige '67 is a partner of Paige and
Ross Development, a real estate development
business. He and his wife, Cyntltia, live in
Longmeadow, MA. Wallace J . Whitley '67 is
the vice president/financial consultant for
Shearson Lehnlan Brotllers. He and his wife,
Linda, live in Dallas, TX. Richard Wilfred '67 is
an assistant professor of geography at
Bloomsburg University. He lives in Fairfield,
ME. Peter Bachhuber '68 is the
president/owner of Shoring & Supply Company,
Inc., a distributor of light equipment to tile con-truction
industry. He and his wife, Carol, live in
Kansas City, MO. Edgar L. Buck '68 is current­ly
self-employed as an attorney. Prior to practic­ing
law, he negotiated the flrstjoint venture in
tile People's Republic of Chlna for Welton
Becket. He lives in Alamogordo, NM. Sam J.
Butler '68 is the president and chlef executive
officer with Citizens Bank of Fannington. He
lives in Farmington, NM. John H. Fanning '68
is the general manager for Waggery Enterprises
Inc., an inlPOrt-eXPOrt trading company. He and
his wife, Jill, live in Albany, OR. Willard T.
Fields '68 is in sales at Christiansburg Cash
Register. He lives witll hls wife, Gail, in
Roanoke, VA. F. Berry Hayley '68 is an insur­ance
broker/agent for Poe & Associates, Inc. He
and his wife, Glenda, live in Coral Gables, FL.
Ralph V. Hetzel '68 is chlef executive officer
of Pelican Tours International. He lives in
Don Schmoldt '58
Congratula­tions,
Class
0/1960,/or
completing a
pledge 0/
$125,000
toward the
Erickson
Pavilion!
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII / 1 / 1993 25
• Updates
Marketing
Black Gold
Michael Boyatt '60
Imagine what it must have been
like to have been a marketing man­ager
for one of the world's largest oil
companies during the oil shock in
the mid 1970's. How does one best
market a product when its increased
price will cause severe economic
setbacks when the import bill
becomes due? For Michael Boyatt
'60, who was supply and distribution
manager of Esso Brazil at the time,
this was one of those situations an
international manager faces in
the course of doing business.
Boyatt first became inter­ested
in international business
while in the Air Force. "I saw a
lot of potential for American
business overseas. At that
time, 1 felt U.S. business was
more advanced and the world
seemed to be full of opportuni­ties,"
says Boyatt. In 1959, after
serving in the Air Force from
1956 - 1959, Boyatt decided to
attend Thunderbird.
"Thunderbird provided the oppor­tunity
to understand the world,"
says Boyatt. "Especially through the
teachings of Dr. W.L. Shurtz and
interaction with the foreign stu­dents."
Boyatt concentrated on
Spanish which he felt would give
him the best opportunity for a suc­cessful
career in international man­agement.
Upon graduation, he started work­ing
for Exxon. This was to be the
start of a rewarding career. During
33 years with Exxon
1970s took its toll on the developing
economies due to their dependence
on imported oil for the generation of
energy. When the prices shot up,
think of the inlpact on the import
bill. Prices literally quadrupled. As a
result, the standard of living slowed
down." He says, "By the 1990s most
countries have gotten back on their
feet and we are starting to see
improvements in infrastructure but
other challenges still lie ahead."
"The most rewarding aspect of
being an international manager is
the diversity of the business chal­lenge,
" says Boyatt. "The interna­tional
marketing manager must also
be a bit of a treasurer. There is an
added complexity in the logistics of
moving a product from country to
country where the laws, currencies
and issues are very different. " He
says that the international manager's
perspective is a lot broader. "The
international manager must not only
look at the sale of a product but also
the currency in which it is pur­chased/
sold and when the company
will receive payment. The timeJvalue
of money can be very costly if a cur­rency
is not stable. "
Complexities occur in other
aspects of the business as well.
"When the Valdez oil spill occurred,
we were painfully reminded of just
how important and challenging the
Management of Risk is to overall
perfoffilance of a company," says
Boyatt. "The effective manager just
cannot feel secure and
(16 overseas) he lived
in six different coun­tries-
Guatemala,
Nicaragua, EI
Salvador, Brazil,
Jamaica and Trinidad.
Boyatt says, "One of
the most gratifying
aspects of being an
international manager
is that 1 have been able
to grow to understand
and to eI\ioy so many
different cultures. "
The goal for most
managers in an organi­zation
is " ... to maxi­mize
the present value
"The most
rewarding
aspect 0/
being an
international
manager IS
the diversity
a/the
business
challenge . ..
consider any aspect of
the company's opera­tion
as being routine. A
good manager insures
that his/her organization
builds a culture of day­to-
day awareness of risk
and adherence to prede­tennined
operating
practices. "
Boyatt has been very
successful in his efforts
to market Exxon's prod­ucts.
Presently, he is
Vice President of Esso
Inter-America, Inc., an
Exxon affiliate with
5,000 employees and
of future cash flows," says Boyatt.
"To an international manager this is
particularly challenging because
there are so many different factors
involved. Exxon operates in 27 dif­ferent
countries in Latin America
alone." This translates into 27 differ­ent
currencies, not to mention legal,
cultural and language differences.
"Over the years, there has been
significant impact on Latin American
countries due to the cost of energy,"
says Boyatt. "The oil shock of the
sales of $10 million per day. He is
marketing director with functional
responsibility for sales, aviation, ter­minalling,
marine, lube blending
plants and engineering in 27 coun­tries
throughout the Caribbean
Basin, Mexico, and Central and
South America. He also has contact
director responsibility for the over­all
downstream business in Mexico
and Colombia.
And'rea M. Komives '94
26 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 1 1 1993
Nelson, New Zealand. James F. Lehman '68 is
in sales with Lawrence Eyeware Inc. He and his
wife, Tami, live in Boulder, CO. William B.
Martin '68 is director of marketing for
Castleberry's Food Company. He and his wife,
Nancy, live in Augusta, GA. Richard W. Melick
'68 is the vice presidentJgeneraJ manager of
Utility Specialist Inc. He lives in Phoenix, AZ.
John E. O'Brien '68 is the president of Color­Tec
Inc., a retail photo business. He and his
wife, Anne, live in Carrollton, TX. C. Scott
Sipherd '68 is employed by the U.S. Justice
Department. He lives in Lincoln, NE. Richard
Weden '68 is the president of American
Express (Mexico) SA de Cry. He lives with his
wife, Mary, in Lumas Altos, Mexico. Ewart J.
White m '68 is employed at Grosse Pointe
Academy in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI.
REUNION
1969 November. 1994
James Crowe is a stockbroker for Edward D.
Jones & Co. He lives in Eureka, IL. Bonnie
Gadless is retired. She and her husband,
Robert Scanlon, live in Tallahassee, FL.
Charles W. Gameros is the regional financial
officer for Travelers Insurance Company. He
lives in McKinney, TX. T. Marvin Hancock
recently returned from Sao Paulo, Brazil where
he was president and chief executive officer of
Banco de Financiamento Internacional SA.
Currently, he resides in Miami and is the chief
financial officer of Blue Tech Inc. Gerald A.
Hopkins is co-owner of Burchell Realty. He
lives in Carmel, CA. Ralph B. Hurlbutt is a
self-employed investment banker. He and his
wife, Louise, live in Devon, PA. Spiro
Janicovich is the owner of International Global
Trade, an international air and surface trans­portation
company operating in Chicago, IL.
Gary L. Johns is a managing director of
American Express-Eqyptian American Bank.
He lives in Cairo, Eqypt. Robert Kearns is
director of corporate finance with Polaris
Aircraft Leasing. He lives in Tiburon, CA.
Richard A. Koehler is the president for IKR
Corporation, an international marketing finn.
He and his wife, Inga, live in Houston, TX.
Peter McClean is the general manager of the
Saudi International Bank. He and his wife,
Martha, live in Rowayton, CT. Ted E.
Mullennix is the president and chief executive
officer for Applied Environmental Services. He
lives in Marina Del Rey, CA. Antonio Pulido­Morales
is an international coordinator for R.
W. Smith & Co. Inc., a customs broker and
international forwarder. He lives in Miami, FL.
1970-1972
Ervin Beal '70 recently joined J. C. Penney
Company as an assistant in the corporate legal
department in Plano, Texas. He lives in Dallas.
Gary A. Counts '70 is a real estate mortgage
underwriter with MPS Inc. He lives in
Frederick, MD. Marc Golubock '70 is the Unit
Chief of International Chemicals for the U. S.
Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement
Agency. He lives with his wife in Fairfax, VA.
Thomas K. Gray '70 is the senior vice presi­dent
at Golden Harvest Films, Inc. He is the
producer of the Nir\ja Turtles series. He lives in
Beverly tIiJls, CA. Daniell Henderson '70 is a
broker with Chuck Olson Real Estate, KaJisdell.
He and his wife, Debra, live in KaJisdeIJ, MT.
Pavel Kriz '70 is self-employed as a marketing
advertising consultant. He lives in Prague,
Czech Republic. James H. Pool '70 is the
western sis-Latin American sales manager witll
ITW Minigrip Zip Pale He and his wife,
Maribeth, live in Lake Forest, CA. Cheri Quan
Hensley '70 is U,e director of marketing with
Primary Medical Clinic. She lives with her hus­band,
Bud, in Midland, TX. Chase C. Rhee '70
is the president of Ameriko Industries Corp., an
importJexport fum. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Howard M. Spiegelman '70 is an independent
consultant. He lives with his wife, Deborah, in
Rockville, MD. Michael Sunderland '70 is
vice president, Latin America, for American
Body Armor. He and his wife, Kuka, live in
Mianu, FL. Carl Thompson '70 is the owner of
Toner Cartridge Service Specialists, a laser
printer cartridge recharging business. He lives
with his wife Evelyn, in Peoria, AZ. Vince
Zamis '70 is the manager and principal partner
in an investment business. He lives in Fountain
Hills, AZ. Thomas E. Dent '71 is a teacher ill
Guanl employed by the Department of
Education. He and his wife, Barbara Dungca,
live in Barrigada, Guam. Robert C. Dewolfe
'71 is the regional manager for Russia for Alfa­Laval,
a petroleunl company. He and his wife,
Kathy, live in Oklalloma City, OK Ronald C.
Eld '71 is the executive director-business plan­lling
for Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a drug discov­ery
company. He lives with his wife, Lande, in
Sall Diego, CA. Helen D. Hachem '71 is a relo­cation
coordinator and sales associate for
Gagliaroo Realty. She and her husband, Khalil
Hachem '72, live in River Forest, IL. William
R. Hubard '71 is a manager for
Eurobonds.!Foreign Exchange with R. P. Martin
Pic. He and his wife, Susan, live in London,
United Kingdom. Vincent J. Masucci '71 is the
senior executive of American International
Companies' West Coast Operations. He will be
based in Los Angeles, CA. Rosemary Miller
Berry '71 is living in Coral Gables, FL. Her
baby girl, Hannall Kathleen, was born in August
of 1991. William G. Nash '71 is the senior vice
president with Kemper Securities Inc., a real
estate investments business. He and his wife,
Barbara, live in Denver, CO. R. Lee Rigney '71
is the president for Capstar Partners Inc., a
lease advising fum. He lives with his wife,
Chris, in Mt. Kisco, NY. Robert D. Scholle '71
is an associate director at Merrill Lynch
International. He lives in Bal1rain, Saudi Arabia.
Donald J . Sobery '71 is a project development
vice president for Petroleum Source & Systems
Group. He lives in Decatur, GA. Claudio B.
Altmann '72 is director of Hisud SA. He lives
in Montevideo, Uruguay. Robert T. Angle '72
is the president of Thomas F. White Company, a
securities brokerage. He lives in San Francisco,
CA. Morris A. Barkan '72 is the president and
director of sales and marketing for Albar
Packaging Supply Inc. He lives in Tucson, AZ.
Manfred Braun '72 is the general export man­ager
for Ritz Punlpenfabrik, a manufacturer of
industrial water pumps. He and his wife,
Patricia, live in West Geffilany. James F.
Caugilman '72 is the regional sales manager
for Bakec Furniture Co. He lives in High Point,
NC. Stephen E. Chilton '72 is the vice presi­dent
with Cache Valley Electric Lighting
Company. He lives in Salt Lake City, ill. Bruce
A. Conti '72 is the vice president of interna­tional
operations and development with Gatx
Ternlinals Corp., wluch specializes in indepen­dent
liquid bulk selvices. He and llis wife,
Barbara, live in Wilmette, IL. William Evans
'72 is seJf-€mployed with International
Management Consultants. He lives and works
ill Easton, CT. Michael V. Grady '72 is tile
director of the western region for McDonnell
Douglas Finance Corporation. He lives in
Manhattan Beach, CA. Robert Greenbaum '72
is seJf-€mployed in the field of thoroughbred
horses. He lives in NOrtll Miami Beach, FL.
Richard E. Kohn '72 is the business develop­ment
manager for United States Leasing
International. He lives in Mill Valley, CA.
William C. Kristy '

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The American
Grad11ate
School oJ
Inlemalional
Management
Volume XLVfJI,
Number 1
1993
Thunderbird
CIBER
•
1992-93
Annual
Report
TABLE OF CONTENTS Thunderbird Magazine
Volume XLVID, Issue 1
2 What We've Known for Years ... 1993
Thunderbird Center for A publication of the Thunderbird Alumni
Intmnatio nat Business Alumni Relations Office of Association 1993-94
The American Graduate Board of Directors
Education and Research &;hool of International and Officers
7 Privatization in Poland
Management, 15249 N. 59th
Avenue, Glendale, AZ Chairman of the Board
8 The First Executive M.I.M.
85306-6006 (602) 978-7135 Stephen K. Orr '79
TELEX 187123
FAX (602) 978-8238 President
10 Opinion on the Middle East H. Gene Wick '60
12 From Wake Forest to Wales Assistant Vice Presid('nt for Vice Presidents
The new faculty of Thunderbird ComlmuUcation and Editor: Maruten FI(,lIIke '79
Nelda S. Crowell Thomas D. Hobson '79
13 Thirty at Thunderbird LindaJ. Magoon '84
Joaquim DuaTte and Publication Specialist and
Managing Editor: Secretary
JO'rge Valdivieso Kru'en Enyedy Breunig Bobbie M. Boyd
15 Commencement '93 Conullwlication Secretary: Ex Officio Members
JoaIU) Toole Roy A. Herberger, Jr.
16 Footnotes Jolm E. Berndt
18 Bookstore Catalog
Design:
Pat Kenny Graphic Design Board Members
20 A Living Legend Director of AlIllllJ1i
John C. Cook '79
George T. DeBakey '73
Goldwater speaks to Relations and Publishel~ Michael T. Dillon '78
Bobbie M. Boyd Webb F. Elkins '63 Arizona alums McDianllid R. Messenger '72
21 Thtmderbird in Europe Assistant Director Carolyn Polson O'Malley '70
of Alumni Relations: Joseph A. O'Neill '80
22 Network Michelle Olson Richru'd E. Ragsdale '67
Mike A. Santellanes, Sr. '60
25 Updates Al\U1mi Relations Stall: Martin E. SllSZ '79
JanetM. Mueller MruthaS. Van Gelder
1992-93 Annual Report Executive Secretary/ Gypton '88
Office Manager Daniel D. Witcher '50
Winterim in Washington Advertising Director,
Thunderbini magazine
Jane Kidney Honorary Boru'd Members:
011 the Cover: Secretary Joseph M. Klein '47
Helen Grassbaugh
As a resul.1 of being named a Centerfor Receptionist
I nlemational Business Education and Ruth E. Thompson
Administrative Assistant
ReseaTch, Thunderbird's ma,ny new DOlma Cleland
Data Base Administrator
programs alia centers have significant Lucille CensopraIlo
global implications. Data Entry Clerk
Business Week Ranks Thunderbird
Business Week,
in its June 7,
1993 issue,
named Thun­derbird
to its list oftop 40
business schools. This is
significant not only for
the recognition of the
Thunderbird program,
but also for the national
exposure it brings to the
school (Business Week's
average circulation is
886,229). Vice President
for Academic Affairs
David Ricks, in his
address to the summer
1993 incoming students,
declared that he was
delighted to have Thun­derbird
included on a list
of Top 40 B-Schools not
only because of the pres­tigious
institutions named,
but also because Thun­derbird
does not con­sider
itself a typical
business school. "We
consider ourselves an
international manage­ment
program," said
Ricks, "If they consider
us among the top busi­ness
schools as well, so
much the better."
Rankillg America's Top B-Schools
ness cannot fail to con­sider
going to this school
for a master's in busi­ness."
Both the magazine
article and the listing in
"A Business Week Guide:
Ill-Depth Profiles of Over 50 MBA Programs
Thunderbird is included among 20
unranked "runners-up" (to the ranked top
twenty) which were selected based on a
survey of leading corporate recruiters.
The runners-up distinguish themselves by
"their ability to develop strengths in niche
areas and to offer creative touches to the
traditional MBA." Business Week pOints
out that most of the innovation in
Business School programs is found in
schools that are "lingering on the edge" of
the Top 20. These schools are trying
harder than the national leaders to adapt
their progranls to the changing needs of
both students and employers; this is espe­cially
true with respect to international
business.
It therefore comes as no surprise that
Thunderbird's long-established tripartite
curriculum is cited as its most distinguish­ing
feature. Business Week notes, "anyone
seriously interested in international busi-
The Best Business
Schools" focus on Thun­derbird's
history as the
country's first and fore­most
management pro­gram
with a global
perspective. For the first
30 years of the school's
existence, in fact, Thun­derbird
offered the only
such program in the
nation.
As for "snobby acade­mics
(who) turn up their
noses when you mention
Thunderbird," Business
Week says: "Phooey on
them." Although the
unique nature of the
M.I.M. degree has to date
denied Thunderbird
AACSB accreditation (an
application is currently
under review), still
"there's no shortage of
recruiters wanting Thun­derbird
grads." The top
alumni employers are
Citibank (110), Chase
Manhattan Bank (87), U.S. Department of
State (86), BankAmerica (67) and Merrill
Lynch (64), and the top 1992 recruiters
were PepsiCo (6), U.S. government (6),
Mars, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola,
Citibank, American Express and AT&T
with 4 grads each. Also noteworthy is the
list of accredited schools not making
Business Week's Top 40, such as Arizona
State University, Ohio State, Rice
University, Texas A&M, University of
Florida, University of Maryland, etc.
The American Graduate School of
International Management is better
equipped than others to prepare its gradu­ates
for success in the global market, and
this is supported by Business Week. While
other institutions are scrambling to inter­nationalize
their programs, Thunderbird
is "sitting pretty" with 47 years of experi­ence
readying students for international
careers. •
by Jennifer Erickson
at We've Known
for Years ...
•• . is Now Official
u. S. Department of Education names Thunderbird a
Center for International Business Education and Research.
To baseball fans, it's a bottom­of-
the-ninth, bases-loaded,
grand-slam home run. In ten­nis
it's a Wimbledon title. To
soccer enthusiasts, it's a World Cup. No
matter what the contest, being named
the best of your field after intense com­petition
is the pinnacle of success.
For Thunderbird, it means being
named a CIBER-a Center for Inter­national
Business Education and
Research-the best of the best, and a
model for other international business
programs around the country.
Thunderbird's CIBER grant, which
was awarded in July by the U.S. Depart­ment
of Education, is perhaps the great­est
boost the School has received in
recent years. It is a very prestigious
award that will greatly enhance the aca­demic
reputation of the School, ex­plains
CIBER director Dr. David Ricks,
vice president for academic affairs.
CIBER's basic purpose is to generate
new ideas and launch new programs,
says Ricks. Program ideas may come
from faculty, alunmi or business people.
All the new ideas and programs will
support the basic mission of the School
-to prepare individuals for manage­ment
positions in many cultures.
ENHANCING THE ACADEMIC
REPUTATION
Through the innovative programs it
fosters and merely by its presence,
CIBER's greatest role will be helping to
enhance the academic reputation of the
School. "In international business cir­cles,
Thunderbird's reputation is not an
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
issue," explains Ricks. "But in the acad­emic
community, we've sometimes
been questioned.
"CIBER says that we have joined the
'club' of high quality international busi­ness
schools. And all the programs that
develop through the CIBER have the
probability of increasing the School's
reputation," says Ricks.
"Just as we expect AACSB accredita­tion
can do, the CIBER gives us another
credential. In fact, it will probably help
in our effort to attain accreditation,
because it is an outside stamp of
approval," says Ricks. "AACSB will
know that we went through a competi­tive
review: 70 schools applied for the
four new [CIBER) centers.
"Also, the recent Business Week
ranking (see page 1) is an outside opin­ion
that says we're one of the best. Any
time you can get one of these outside
opinions, it really helps your case."
ONE OF ONLY 25
The CIBER program was created by
the Department of Education in 1989.
Several groups including the American
Assembly of Collegiate Schools of
Business (AACSB), the Department of
Education, the Academy of Internation­al
Business, and the Canadian govern­ment
were instrumental in developing
the CIBER program.
Currently the "club" membership is
limited to just 25 CIBER centers. Every
three years a CIBER award must be
reconsidered, so some fluctuation in
membership occurs. But with the pro­grams
the Thunderbird CIBER has in
progress, Ricks expects that the school
is certainly going to be one that goes the
distance.
"Schools with the highest points
win," Ricks says. "For most schools, the
expectation is to be a regional center,
but ours will be more nationally
focused. Our programs will draw fac­ulty
from all over the United States," he
says.
Once the CIBER programs are up and
running, they move out of CIBER pro­tection
to become self-supporting and
to make way for new, fresh ideas. "The
idea is to give new opportunities a
chance-it gives us extra dollars to
launch programs. More ideas will be
tried than will work, but it's a place to
give ideas a chance."
TRAINING FACUL TV
One of the first CIBER programs tak­ing
shape is the Faculty Development in
International
Business (FDIB) The chief administra-program,
to tors oJ the Thunderbird
begin in Win- Genter Jor International
terim 1994. Its Business Education
goal is to teach and Research (GIBER)
selected bus i-ness
professors are Dr. LleweUyn
from other U.S. HoweU, Associate Direc-schools
how to
add an interna­tional
dimension
to the courses
they are already
teaching. Ricks
developed and
was director of a
tor; Dr. Gandace Deans,
Assistant Director;
and Dr. David Ricks,
Director. The map in
the background slwws
some oj the nation's
25 GIBER centers.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
CIDER Fosters Undergraduate
Linkages
Dickinson College, a liberal arts
undergraduate school with no gradu­ate
program of its own, is the first par­ticipant
in the Thunderbird Under­graduate
Linkages program being cre­ated
under the CIBER. The idea is that
by providing undergraduate schools
with a Thunderbird link, their students
can complete many of the prerequi­sites
and attain the M.I.M. in one year.
It also enables Thunderbird to market
the M.I.M. to a new audience-fresh­men
and sophomores at the nation's
best hberal arts schools and other top
undergraduate institutions that don't
have their own graduate program.
"We have provided Dickinson with a
Thunderbird track, It explains Lew
Howell, associate director of Thunder­bird's
CIBER and coordinator of the
undergraduate linkages program.
"Students there can sign up at the
beginning of their sophomore year and
select pre-approved courses for auto­matic
Thunderbird waivers. H they
take those courses [at Dickinson) and
are accepted to Thunderbird, they
could earn the M.I.M. in one year," he
sa;ys.
"We foresee that Dickinson students
who come to Thtmderbird could waive
the language requirement, two of the
four international studies require­ments,
and maybe some world busi­ness
prerequisites."
'11nmdeIbird hopes to develop 20-25
such ~linlcs over the next
five years, Bowen says. Bowell noted
similar FDIB program at the University
of South Carolina, which attracted hun­dreds
of faculty.
Training faculty is one of the best
ways to heighten a school's academic
reputation. "This
that Southeast Asia's University of
Brunei is an example of an interna­tional
school he is pursuing for a simi­lar
arrangement. As Dickinson is
already doing, these schools will pro­mote
Thunderbird as the school to
attend for a master's degree in interna­tional
management, giving Thunder­bird
an added boost for attracting high
quality students.
Students at schools with the
"Thunderbird Undergraduate Link"
will have an advantage in the
Thunderbird application process via
some automatic standards. For exam­ple,
a Dickinson student, who has com­pleted
the Thunderbird track, has no
work experience, a 3.2 GPA, a 600+
GMAT score and has studied abroad
for one semester is automatically
admitted to Thunderbird. Those with
at least two years of professional work
experience, will be admitted with a 3.0
GPA, a 570+ GMAT and one semester
abroad.
"We may end up with a few more
students directly from their undergrad­uate
studies, but basically, we don't
intend to change the mix of students
very much. This undergraduate linkage
program is just one piece of a larger
recruiting puzzle," Howell explains. In
other pieces of the puzzle, like the
post-MBA program, we are trying to
attract people with more experience.
In my view, we are trying to attract
bright, well-educated students, many
of whom have solid work experience."
"FDIB allows us to train other faculty
to teach international business,"
explains Ricks. The program is primarily
for business professors who teach at the
undergraduate level. They learn how to
internationalize
program is some­thing
that may not
be visible to alumni
or students, but it
will be to faculty
who teach interna­tional
business all
around the coun­try,
and that faculty
is very important
to us," Ricks says.
Thunderbird's
CIBERgrant
... is perhaps the
their classrooms,
and Thunderbird
makes personal
contact with influ­ential
undergradu­ate
professors who
advise students on
which graduate
schools to explore.
greatest boost the
School has received
in recent years.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII / 1 / 1993
An add-on pro­gram
of FDIB is a
sununer language sequence that begins
in 1994. Under the direction of Dr. Jorge
Valdivieso, professor of Spanish, under­graduate
Spanish teachers will attend
an FDIB course that instructs them how
to teach business vocabulary and usage.
Eventually, other Thunderbird lan­guages
will be added to the summer
program. Ricks says there is a growing
trend among undergraduate business
majors to study a non-English language,
so business-language training is a nat­ural.
"We are targeting all faculty," says
Ricks. "The CIBER is not limited by sub­ject
area."
Another language program is the fur­ther
development of lexicons and busi­ness
dictionaries for the Thunderbird
languages. Lexicons have already been
developed for German, Chinese, and
Japanese. Russian will be next.
A NEW ACADEMIC JOURNAL
The Journal of International Manage­ment
(JIM) is another dimension of the
Thunderbird CIBER. This new academic
journal will publish articles covering the
integration of cultural components into
international management research pro­jects
and teaching strategies for interna­tional
management. The quarterly
publication will fill an international man­agement
academic void. The journal will
be edited by Dr. Ricks, who served eight
years as editor of the Journal of
International Business Studies; Allen
Morrison, associate professor of man­agement;
and J. Stewart Black, associate
professor of management.
DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS
Two other CIBER programs will also
help build the School's academic repu­tation:
an MBNMIM expansion pro­gram
and a program to develop a
post-MBA degree. CIBER will facilitate
the expansion of the number of schools
with which Thunderbird has dual
degree agreements (M.B.A.lM.I.M.). The
School currently has programs with the
University of Arizona, Arizona State Uni­versity
and the University of Houston.
"We have contacted the top 40
schools in the Business Week ranking to
see if they are interested in an M.B.A./
M.I.M. agreement," Ricks says. "These
are well-known, nationally ranked MBA
programs. Our goal is to have 15 of
these programs," Ricks says. "The pro­gram
benefits Thunderbird by attracting
top M.B.A. students, thereby enhancing
the student body with stronger, brighter
students."
POST M.B.A. DEGREE
The other program being developed
is the post-M.B.A. M.I.M. "We plan to
invite people who already have an
M.B.A. to come for an accelerated
M.I.M.," says Ricks. "Our target audi­ence
is all the people who took the
M.B.A. but never had a course in inter­national
business." The post-M.B.A. stu­dents
must come from an AACSB­accredited
program and must go
through the same admission process as
non-M.B.A. applicants. "We're not going
to accept someone just because they
have an M.B.A.," says Ricks. "Our goal is
to get the best 1,600 students we can.
We don't want to grow; we want to
increase the quality of our student body.
The better students we get in, the better
classes and standards and reputation
Thunderbird will have."
Ricks believes that the alumni net­work
is a big drawing card to the post­M.
B.A. student. "A lot of M.B.A.s know
about the Thunderbird network and will
want to join. The post-M.B.A. who earns
an M.I.M. will be easy to place in the job
market, Ricks says. "We're willing to let
people have the impression that the
M.I.M. is more than an M.B.A.-it is a
higher level program."
(IBER BOLSTERS THUNDERBIRD EUROPE
A key element of the Thunderbird
CIBER is to bolster the Thunderbird
Europe program, which opened January
1993 at the campus in Archamps,
France, near Geneva. Since the Thun­derbird
Europe campus is a model for
future expansion into Latin America and
Asia, its success is crucial to the contin­ued
development of Thunderbird's over­seas
programs. The Archamps campus
had 33 students enrolled in the spring
semester and more than 40 in the sum­mer,
but a sharply smaller fall enroll­ment
has opened the door for Thun­derbird
to invite other schools to part­ner
in this venture.
"We're creating an international con­sortium
for graduate business schools
who want to send faculty and students
to study at our campuses in Archamps
or Tokyo. Consortium members would
also be participants in any future over­seas
campuses, Ricks said.
OTHER ClBER BENEFITS
The CIBER will also help attract top
faculty, who recognize CIBER schools
as those with creative and supportive
atmospheres for new research and
experimental programs, Ricks says.
CIBER Reaches the Business Community
The Thunderbird CIBER will foster
links with the business community pri­marily
through six new centers that will
incorporate Thunderbird expertise into
the changing international business cli­mate.
The centers will be beachheads
for study, research, and conferences
that will help smaU- and medium-sized
businesses move into the global market­place.
The North American Free Trade
(NAFTA) Center, directed by Shoshana
Tancer, professor of
international studies,
is a resource for com­panies
adapting to
the new rules of busi­ness
between the
U.S., Canada and
Mexico. Outreach
efforts include con-
Shoshana Tancer
ferences, contract research, and execu­tive
development programs to
strengthen relationships of businesses
and government agencies in the region.
The Center for the International
Management of Technology, directed by
Dennis Guthery, professor of world
Dennis
Guthery
business and director of
the School's Master of
International Manage­ment
of Technology
degree program, is a
leading-edge nucleus for
companies. "The Center
is designed to help busi­nesses
meet three chal­lenges:
1) to integrate
technology into a firm's strategic objec­tives;
2) to assess and evaluate technol­ogy
more effectively; and 3) to improve
new product development processes."
The Center for International Risk
Management, directed by John
O'Connell, professor of world business,
is an educational
resource and clear­inghouse
for U.S.
firms searching for
information on laws
and regulations per­taining
to four topics:
1) international envi­ronmental
risk man- John O'Connell
agement, 2) disaster planning, 3)
political risk management and 4) inter­national
liability determination. This is
the first U.S. clearinghouse for informa­tion
on international risk management.
The Thunderbird Multimedia Center,
directed by Beverly Knystautas, associ-ate
professor of educational technology,
is a resource for Thunderbird faculty
and for the business
community to integrate
multimedia technology
into the classroom and
the boardroom. It also
offers consulting and
development services to
companies that want to Beverly
incorporate multimedia Knystautas
into their international
business training. Multimedia is espe­cially
effective in language learning, and
the center has already created a Chinese
application. The Multimedia Center has
also received support from IBM.
The Center for International Health
Management is directed by Robert
Tancer, associate professor of interna­tional
studies and director of the
School's Master of International Health
Management degree program. "We're
going to use the center to attract pro­grams
that will enhance the basic
Robert Tancer
health degree pro­gram,
focusing first
on legal and ethical
questions affecting
organ transplants
around the world,"
says Tancer. "We're
also developing a
program through a
$40,000 grant from Searle for a lecture
series on international health subjects
such as infectious diseases and cross­border
implications." Other issues
include privatization of health care and
cost-effectiveness in pharmaceuticals.
The International Environmental
Management Center, co-directed by
Michael Woolverton,
professor of world
business and John
Conklin, associate pro­fessor
of international
studies, will broaden
the M.I.M. program by
integrating courses in
international environ­mental
policy and man­agement.
Additionally,
the center will conduct
research in environ­mental
management
and will support con­ferences
and other
activities dealing with
environmental policy John Conklin
and management.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
Center for International Business Education and Research
CENTERS
Multimedia Center
Dr. Beverty Knystautas
Center for the International
Management of Technology
Dr. Dennis Guthery
Center for International
Health Management
Dr. Robert Tancer
Center for International Risk
Management
Dr. John O'Connell
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) Center
Dr. Shoshana Tancer
Center for Environmental Policy
Dr. John Conklin and
Dr. Michael Woolverton
Faculty can submit research proposals
that could receive in-house funding.
Case-writing is an example of a faculty­proposed
project that the Thunderbird
CIBER would fund.
"It's going to touch the lives offaculty
here the most and will enable us to
launch programs that will improve the
reputation of the School. The impact
may be hard for alumni to measure,
but it will be real," Ricks says. "It
gives us extra dollars to launch pro­grams
and it adds credentials and
credibility to the academic rigor of
our programs."
Those credentials translate world­wide
into higher demand for T'birds
and the development of better stu­dents
to join the world's elite inter­nationalists.
6 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
OBER ADMINI5TRA11ON
Dr. David Ricks. Director
Dr. Uewellyn Howell. Associate Director
Dr. Candace DeaM. Assistant Director
Dr. Beverty Springer. Research
Mr. Randy Schilling. External Affairs
Dr. Jorge Valdlvieso. Faculty Relations
PROGRAMS
Faculty Development in Journal of International
International Business - Management
Dr. David Ricks - Dr. David Rides
Thunderbird Europe Russian Dictionary of
Campus I-- Business Tenninology
Dr. Curtis Harvey - Dr. Walter Tuman
Dual-Degree Program Undergraduate University
Post-MBA - Unkages
Prof. Richard Bossert - Dr. Uewellyn Howell
External Unkages with Integrating Research
the Business Community - Dr. Beverty Springer
Mr. Randy Schilling '---
The CIBER, which is funded through
the U.S. Department of Education,
draws $100,000 on September 1, 1993.
Each year the CIBER director must sub­mit
an annual report to request the next
year's funding. The initial grant is for
three years, and the first year is almost
"CIBER gives us extra
dollars to launch
programs and it adds
credentials and credibility
to the academic rigor of
our programs. "
always the smallest grant given, Ricks
says. He expects years two and three of
the Thunderbird CIBER to bring in as
much as $300,000 each year.
Dr. Llewellyn Howell, chair of the
international studies department, is
associate director for the CIBER pro­gram;
and Candace Deans, associate
professor of world business, is
assistant director. Members of the
CIBER executive committee are
Beverly Springer, professor of inter­national
studies; Dennis Guthery,
professor of world business; Jorge
Valdivieso, professor of Spanish;
and Randy Schilling, associate vice
president for development. •
by Mary Mi tchell
Privatization in Poland generally in favor of it. While some
Polish citizens think that everything
should be privatized, others advocate
limits, with the state retaining control of
Polish official updates Thunderbird strategic domains of the economy."
community on changes, risks, opportunities Another major obstacle is the absence
of business infrastructure. Poland is a
case in point, emerging after five years
Privatization has emerged as the
leading public policy trend
today. In Eastern Europe, pri­vatized
enterprises now
account for more in sales than all
Western and South American privatiza­tion
projects combined.
It's commonly called the "sale of the
century," said Jerzy Strzelecki, under­secretary
of state in the Ministry of
Privatisation responsible for capital pri­vatization
for the Republic of Poland, in
a presentation to students and faculty at
Thunderbird.
Why sell? Partly for economic rea­sons,
since "these companies
have shown themselves to be
inept in providing goods to
the citizens," says Strzelecki.
Another reason is philosoph­ical,
as privatization dimin­ishes
the role of the state.
Also, "we're seeing an impor­tant
cultural change .... entre­preneurs
and innovators did
not have a place in the state­owned
economy." Now,
much of the emerging pri­vate
sector in Eastern
Europe consists of small
family-owned businesses.
DRAMATIC PROGRESS
By April 1993, less than four years
after privatization began in Poland, the
Ministry had legally transformed from
state-owned to joint stock enterprises
some 900 industrial companies, 566
construction companies, 262 agricul­tural
companies and 194 distribution
companies. Almost 60 percent of the
labor force now works in the private
sector, and some areas, such as foreign
trade, are 90 percent privatized.
The country has also formed 3,000
joint ventures of significant size-the
largest a $2 billion investment by Fiat,
with other major deals by European
multinationals Asea-Brown-Boveri,
Unilever, Philips and IKEA, Japan's
Nissho Iwai and Itoh, and U.S.-based
multinationals such as Coca-Cola,
Ameritech and AT&T.
The overall volume of investment
activity has helped the Warsaw stock
exchange gain status as the world's
best-performing stock market, with cap­ital
gains of 200 percent to 600 percent,
and helped Poland become the single
biggest market in Central Europe.
This year Poland achieved Europe's
highest growth rate, an estimated 4.5
percent, after having gone through
extensive economic and financial
reform, known as "shock therapy,"
beginning in 1989. Inflation has fallen
from 900 percent in 1989 to its current
level of 32 percent.
of war and 40 years of communism.
There were no Western-type fmancial
structures. "Accounting was merely a
mechanism to register money rather
than a credit/investment system," says
Strzelecki. With a regulated economy,
marketing was unnecessary-every­thing
a company produced was sellable.
Strzelecki describes management as
highly politicized, with managers from
the top down appointed by Communists
at different levels of the party structure.
Local party Communists typically ran
the lower levels of a company, such that
upward mobility was not based on eco­nomic
or management skills. As a
result, Poland now has a shortage of
local managers experienced in running
corporations.
Poland's Jerzy
Str-zelecki of the ISSUES OF CHANGE
As income and operat­ing
expenses were irrele­vant,
overemployment
was the norm, with
Eastern European compa­nies
having three to four
times as many workers as
comparable Western com­panies.
Some managers
oppose the entry of pri­vate
investors, as one cer­tain
result is increased
Minist1y of
Privatisation talks
with Dr. Paul
Johnson,l7ofessor
of Wortd Business,
and Andre
Mierzwa '87 who
helped arrange
StTzelecki's visit to
Thunderbird.
CHALLENGES AHEAD
Poland's economic reforms are
expected to continue, despite recent
elections that brought a leftist coalition,
dominated by the Democratic Left
Alliance and Poland Peasants' Party, to
power. These groups, both with roots in
the communist system, consider them­selves
social democrats, intent on con­tinuing
the agenda of market reforms
while also advocating support for the
needy.
Eastern European companies now
face some of the same challenges as
Western companies, plus a host of
unique problems related to the transi­tion
from communism to capitalism.
"Our biggest problem is education,"
says Strzelecki. "The privatizers in
Poland are the avant-garde working for
change in society. The political elite are
unemployment, without
"golden parachutes" for managers who
lose their jobs.
The Ministry is consulting with
experts on dealing with unemployment
and other social issues of change, such
as rate of production and salary
increases. "One company we tried to
privatize had a conflict between union
and management, such that we had to
suspend privatization," says Strzelecki.
Adds Warsaw-based Thunderbird
alum Andre Mierzwa '87, a Principal and
the Director of Privatisation Services
for Central Europe Trust, "The issue is
what's the risk of running the business.
We have to make people [concerned
about] the future. If they don't do this,
they will never succeed in economy and
business. There are no more state cred­its.
People must take on the risk of run­ning
businesses themselves." •
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993
The First Executive MIM
Full-time professionals conclude two-year
program and graduate with class
Ar two hectic years of studying
for an M.I.M. while handling
full-time professional jobs, the
students in the first Executive
M.I.M. class received their degrees dur­ing
August, 1993, commencement cere­monies.
The E.M.I.M. program has the same
curriculum requirements as the M.I.M.,
but differs in format and time period.
One difference is that the E.M.I.M. pro­gram
is lock-step, meaning that the 24
students in the group started at the
same time and took all their classes
together throughout the two years. In
addition, the classes are offered all day
on Fridays and Saturdays every other
weekend. As with the standard M.I.M.,
language is required, but was limited to
Spanish, German, or Japanese.
Before the students were accepted,
their companies had to agree to support
the program by releasing the partici­pants
from their job responsibilities on
scheduled class days. In some cases,
Working professionals in thefirst
Executive M.I.M. class celebrate
their graduation after two years
of attending weekend classes. Dr.
M. Edgar Barrett, vice president
for executive education (lower
photo, secondfrom right) devel­oped
the program, which is now
forming i ts fourth class.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993
the companies also paid the tuition. The
students are currently employed by
such firms as AT&T, Honeywell,
Motorola, Carborundum, the Arizona
Department of Education, G.E., IBM,
MicroRel, US West, Allied Signal, and
Paragon Vision Sciences.
The class also includes entrepre­neurs,
real estate professionals, one
computer software company president,
and an attorney. One class member,
Dick Shriver, was lured out of retire­ment
to attend this first executive pro­gram.
For him, going to Thunderbird
was a lifelong dream. He had been
accepted years before as a regular
M.I.M. student, but had chosen to go
with a job opportunity instead. Now he
was free to pursue the degree he has
always wanted.
Admission requirements are unique
to the E.M.I.M. Students are required to
have eight years of business experience
as well as a good academic record and
strong recommendations. They may
enter only in the fall. The 22 students in
the second group that started in fall,
1992, are now beginning their last year
of the program, and the third group of
22 is now in their first semester of the
program.
The E.M.I.M. course work begins with
an in-residence period of one week and
continues for six trimesters. A trip to
Mexico at the end of the first year and a
ten-day international trip during the sec­ond
year complete the experience.
The hardest part, they admit, is trying
to juggle the pressures of home, work,
and school. "Most of us have 50-to-60-
hour work weeks, and many blend the
demands of Thunderbird with travel
commitments related to our work,» said
Vickie Axford Austin in an article she
wrote for Das Tor. "It isn't unusual for
us to fax study notes back and forth
across time zones or for study groups to
meet via teleconference to connect
interstate. By definition, the people who
apply for and endure an executive mas­ter's
program are driven, so our work
still takes a high priority.
"And so do our families. Many of us
are married and raising kids; and for
people with demanding careers, it's
hard enough to find time for family
within the confines of ajob. Add to that
the hours of study time, group sessions,
and time spent in the classroom every
other Friday and Saturday from 7:50
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for two years. It takes a
particularly patient spouse and under­standing
children to tolerate constant
school-related absences,» says Vickie.
She, herself, is typical, holding a job as
national account executive with
McMurry Publishing, while fulfilling the
roles of student, wife, and mother of
two children.
It is not surprising that by graduation
time, the group had developed an extra­ordinary
camaraderie, even for Thunder­bird.
They have now formed their own
alumni sub-group with Kathy Dorman,
Manager, Market Research Group Staff,
Motorola, as president and Vickie Austin
and Patrick Paterson as newsletter edi­tors.
Rob Kater, one of the E.M.I.M. grad­uates
who owns a landscaping firm, is
working with the Thunderbird grounds
supervisor to establish a study garden
behind Founder's Hall for future E.M.I.M.
students. During their time at Thun­derbird,
the group also started a loan
fund for future E.M.I.M. students. In
addition, several members of the group
have banded together for cooperative
ventures.
"Unlike many M.I.M. students, we
aren't solely focused on landing a job,"
says Austin, "although many may use
the degree as a pivotal piece of the puz­zle
to redirect careers or take on new
ones."
This has already been the case with
John Kenney of Paragon Vision
Sciences, who has been offered a posi­tion
in England with his company; and
Richard Jones of Honeywell, has been
given the opportunity to develop an
international team. •
Before the students
were accepted, their
companies had to agree to
support the program by
releasing the participants
from their job responsibilities
on scheduled class days.
The 24 members of the
first Executive M.I.M.
graduating class pose
on the stairs in the new
World Business
Administration
Building. AU are work­ing
professionals who
graduatedfrom the two­year
program in
August, 1993.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
• Letter to the Editor
Opinion on the Middle East
Alumnus says PLO accord needs U.S.
to broker framework for success in
dealing with issues
Now that the Israeli-PLO
accord has been signed, it is
time for a realistic assess­ment
of how to achieve peace
in the Middle East. The accord itself is
only a beginning, promising much, but
guaranteeing nothing.
Looking at the substance of the deal,
it is actually not much: local government
for the grim slum of Gaza and for the
small West Bank town of Jericho. The
significance of the deal lies in the fact
that there is a deal at all, and in what
may spring from it. One real achieve­ment
is that the Israeli government has
recognized, not just the Palestinian peo­ple,
but also their representative, the
PLO; while the PLO recognizes the exis­tence
of the state of Israel and
renounces the use of violence.
It must have been a giant step for
Arafat who was running the risk of
becoming politically irrelevant in the
Arab world. The fundamentalist move­ment
Hamas, financed by Iran, was
gaining ground in the financial support
of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states,
and the disintegration of the Soviet
Union left the PLO without its principal
supporter on the world stage.
An equally significant yet overlooked
cause for Arafat's decision goes back to
1991 when Abu Iyad a.k.a. Salah Khalaf
was killed. Mr. Khalaf founded the PLO
with Arafat in the 1960s, and was the
chief of intelligence of the PLO and the
mastermind behind much of the PLO
military operation inside and outside
Israel. Khalaf was the long-time confi­dent
and the closest advisor to Arafat.
His assassination left the PLO chairman
politically disoriented and stripped of
his military compas.
Israel, on the other hand, has been
paying an enormous price for its occupa­tion
of the West Bank and Gaza since the
start of the Intifada in 1987. Hundreds of
Israeli soldiers and civilians were killed,
and the financial burden of the occupa­tion
became Ul\iustifiable. The territories
were perceived by many Israelis to be of
little strategic significance for the secu­rity
of Israel. Thus, the historic cere-
10 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1/ 1993
mony at the White House was made pos­sible
by setting aside all the truly con­tentious
issues: borders, settlements,
refugees, and Jerusalem.
IMPLEMENTING THE PEACE
SO what are the next steps towards
implementation? A study by a group of
Harvard economists recommended a
massive infusion of funds in the occu­pied
territories as the sine quo rwn con­dition
for the success of the agreement.
But economic development is often
overstated and it would be a mistake to
view the territories as an economic bas­ket
case that needs to be rescued by the
PLO and the World Bank. The territo­ries
already have a fairly impressive
infrastructure, albeit one in need of
upgrading. Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza are running their own
hospitals and health-care facilities.
They also run a complete educational
system paid for by their own taxes.
Freed from the artificial restraints of the
occupation, the economies of the West
Bank and Gaza are in a good position
for a rapid expansion.
The Palestinians will need a quick
and sizeable infusion of cash, but they
should not wait for the Arab states to
give the bulk of it. Indeed, these states
have a steady record of promising finan­cial
aid and delivering almost none; nor
should they wait for the World Bank to
deliver. They have the opportunity to
quit the politics of complaining and take
charge of their political and economic
destiny by relying on their business
skills developed throughout the world
and by the redirection of the PLO's
$2 billion to $6 billion in assets toward
the territories.
THE ROLE OF THE U.S.
Naturally, economic success is no
more assured than is a political triumph
once Israelis and Palestinians try to turn
a handshake into specific agreements.
This is where the United States should
playa major role. Here, history has a
unique way of repeating itself. It was
under President Richard Nixon, a
by Nassib Ghobril '88
Republican, that Egypt and Israel
reached the 1974 Military Disengage­ment
accord after the October 1973
Arab-Israeli War. Middle East experts,
diplomats and historians agree that it
was the shrewd shuttle diplomacy of
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that
produced the disengagement accord.
This accord laid the groundwork for the
signing of the Israeli-Egyptian Peace
Treaty in 1979 during the Democratic
Carter Administration.
With the historic s igning of the
Israeli-Palestinian peace accord at the
White House, the U.S. returns to a cen­tral
role in the Mideast peacemaking.
President Clinton should seize the
momentum and use the confidence of
both sides to create a conceptual frame­work
for progress. Indeed, only the U.S.
has the credibility to play the brokering
and coordinating role in the ensuing
negotiations and be the guarantor of
any agreements.
In the end, it will be up to the Israelis
and the Palestinians to learn to coexist
despite the major local and regional
obstacles facing them. Yitzhak Rabin
heads a shaky coalition that may at any
time be voted out of power. So does
Yasser Arafat who may be shot out of it,
which would be even worse.
Peace depends on the confidence
that the two sides can mutually create;
at present there is none. Today the
Middle East is at a turning point, but a
long way from being safely turned. The
point is that, for the first time in five
decades, the turning is there to take.
The question is whether the Palestin­ians
and Israelis, with the outside world
looking on, have the courage of their
half-convictions. •
The preceding commentary was sub­mitted
to the Thunderbird Magazine
by Nassib Ghobril '88, a native of
Lebarwn and president of the Chicago
alumni chapter. Nassib is currently
Managing Director for Securitech
International, Inc. Thunderbird
Magazine encourages submission of
alumni vieu;points on significant cur­rent
issues. Send letters to
Thunderbird Magazine, Office of
Communication, 15249 N 59th
Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85306. Letters
may be editedfor style, length and
clarity. Views expressed in the maga­zine
do rwt necessarily reflect those of
the editors or official School policies.
• Faculty Profile
Dynamic Delivery
Professor Dale Davison balances
multiple roles and inspires students
in accounting classes
When students complain
about Professor Dale
Davison, even the com­plaints
sound like compli­ments:
"Why doesn't he teach another
section of intermediate accounting?"
Davison, a twenty-year veteran of grad­uate
and undergraduate level profes­sional
teaching with time out for a stint
in professional accounting, is in big
demand because students say he has
the rare gift of making the sometimes
counter-intuitive and arcane rules of
accounting seem, well, sensible. Non­native
English speakers especially
appreciate Davison's expert stage pres­ence,
his remarkably clear enunciation,
and his crisp, concise explanations of
accounting principles. He also earns
praise for his professionalism, his pre­paredness,
his accessibility out of class,
and his fresh sense of humor: no dusty
old accounting jokes here-Davison
writes his own material.
One reason that there doesn't seem to
be enough of Dale Davison to go around
this semester is that Thunderbird's
newly hatched Executive M.I.M. pro­gram
takes a good share of Davison's
time. Almost every weekend in the fall,
he teaches a section on international
taxation or accounting to the E.M.I.M.
program's non traditional students: "We
have students here that you wouldn't
automatically think of as needing an
international degree-doctors, nurses,
even two landscape architects. But they
know-as we do at Thunderbird-how
small the world really is."
ACADEMICS FOR EXECUTIVES
Between class meetings, Davison's
duties as academic director of the
E.M.I.M. program require his attention
to faculty, curriculum and scheduling
decisions, as well as marketing and
recruiting efforts: "The general reputa­tion
of the program is that it is very rig­orous
... Flip to the end of your flight
magazine and you'll find a dozen places
that, if you send them enough money,
they'll send you a diploma by return
mail. We're on the other end of the spec-trum
from those opportunities." Despite
the program's rigor, which Davison
admits with a mischievous smile "can
be at times a bit stressful for our stu­dents,
" the E.M.I.M. program has
achieved an outstanding student record:
one class of 24 has already graduated,
and two classes totaling 44 are actively
pursuing the M.I.M. Davison attributes
part of this success to the practical
value of the course material: "Some of
our students have found that their situa­tion
on the job is changing rather dra­matically
even as they pursue the
degree. Suddenly they're pulled into the
loop on all the international things that
are going on in their company. "
DOING BUSINESS WITH RUSSIA
In addition to his regular teaching
and administrative duties, Davison has
recently returned from a trip to Russia
to carry out the goals and objectives of
a $500,000 federal grant that Thunder­bird
has received to provide assistance
to a consortium of 20 American busi­nesses
organized by McDonnell Doug­las
Helicopter Company and by
Thunderbird's partner in the grant,
Ecotech International.
Under the terms of the grant, Thun­derbird
is to assist the consortium in
marketing environmental products in
Russia, and to develop joint ventures
and two-way trade with the goal of
increasing US exports. "The beauty of
by Tom Lyons
this arrangement, and the reason for the
grant, is that Thunderbird, through our
international business skills and
Russian skills, can help small American
businesses do business in Russia where
they might lack the financial resources,
the language skills, or the international
expertise to successfully pull it off
alone."
"We had a number of things to
accomplish on our visit to Russia in
order to organize our efforts there. We
needed to investigate legal structures,
banking needs, tax requirements and
tax costs. We also made arrangements
for office space, and made arrange­ments
to establish a communications
link between the Russian office and the
Glendale campus. We established key
working relationships with two Russian
ministries involved with the environ­ment,
and contacted several Russian
environmental groups and enterprises.
In January, we will hire a Russian gen­eral
director for the office, and be in full
operation. "
Professor Davison's involvement in
l(£)ro/essor Davison r amazed me by
achieving the
impossible: He made
me want to study
accounting. "
Dale Davison not
only teaches
accounting, but
also directs the
E.M.I.M. academic
program and is
director for a
half-miUion doUar
government grunt
in the Newly
Independent States.
administrative and
recruiting activities
outside the class­room
indicates his
interest in, and com­mitment
to , Thun­derbird's
future.
Whether he is in
Russia facilitating a
joint venture agree­ment
with another
school , in Boston
representing Thun­derbird
at an MBA
conference, or here on campus entreat­ing
his students to study well and " .. .let
it be the Wharton grad who tries to
spend retained earnings," Davison's
missionary zeal shines through. And he
makes converts wherever he goes. As
one devout marketing student testifies:
"Professor Davison amazed me by
achieving the impossible: He made me
want to study accounting." •
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993 11
• Campus News
From Wake Forest.
to Wales
• •
Seven globalists join Thunderbird faculty
, as top teachers and researchers 'I f Thunderbird were a profes­sional
sports organization, this
season would be touted as an
exceptional recruiting year. We
have among us some of the finest fac­ulty
members in the country whose tal­ents
will become obvious to their
colleagues and students in the coming
months." With those words, Dr. David
Ricks, vice president for academic
affairs, introduced the new faculty
members for the fall 1993 semester.
They come from such schools as
Wake Forest University, the University
of Wales, the University of Kentucky,
Texas Tech University, the University of
Washington, and Dartmouth College.
"Not only are they outstanding teach­ers,"
said Ricks, "but they are also glob­alists
who have made major intellectual
contributions in their fields. Their
research is widely varied and has been
published in some of the finest journals.
They have also written numerous
books, and participated prominently in
their professional organizations."
Curtis E. Harvey, Professor of
World Business and Associate Vice
President for Academic Affairs, is
responsible for the overseas programs
and will teach Fundamentals of
Economics.
Carolina Faculty Development Program
in central Europe.
Dr. Harvey has a B.A. in economics
from the University of California at Los
Angeles, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in eco­nomics
from the University of Southern
California. He has received several
FUlbright lecture, travel and research
grants that enabled him to study in
Romania and Austria. In 1986 he
received the University of Kentucky
Great Teacher award. His publications
include numerous papers and several
books, Coal in Appalachia-An Eco­nomic
Analysis; The Economics of
Kentucky Coal and The Economics of
the U.S. Shipbuilding in the 1970s
(coauthor).
Bodo Schlegelmilch, Professor of
Marketing, previously held the
British Rail Chair of Marketing
at the University of Wales,
U.K., and academic appoint­ments
at the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, and the
University of California at
Berkeley. Being a trained
banker, he worked for
Deutsche Bank and Procter &
Gamble in Germany, and con­sults
for a number of multina­tional
companies. Currently,
he is the Vice President for
J. Stewart Black, Associate Profes­sor
of World Business teaches two sec­tions
of Multinational Business
Management and is director of the
Japan Campus.
Dr. Black comes to Thunderbird from
Dartmouth College where he has been
an assistant professor, teaching organi­zational
behavior and international
management to M.B.A. students at the
Amos Tuck School of Business Admin­istration
since 1988. He has been a visit­ing
professor at the International
University of Japan (fall semester '89,
'90, '91) teaching international business
environments to M.B.A. candidates.
Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth,
Dr. Black was an instructor at Chapman
College and instructor at the University
of California, Irvine.
Dr. Black earned his Ph.D. in adminis­tration
from the University of Califor­nia,
Irvine and a M.S. in organizational
behavior and a B.S. in university studies
from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Black is coauthor of Internation­al
Assignments: Successful Expatria­tion
and Repatriation of Global
Employees. Most of his research has
Most recently he was director of the
International Business Center in the
College of Business and Economics at
the University of Kentucky, a post he
held since 1986. He has been a profes­sor
in the department of economics at
Kentucky since 1969. He has also been a
visiting professor at the University of
Vienna, Austria, and has been project
director, "Internationalizing the
Business College Curriculum," for the
U.S. Department of Education. He has
also been a faculty associate in the
Patterson School of Diplomacy and
International Commerce, the Institute
for Mining and Minerals Research, at
the University of Kentucky; director of
the University of Kentucky Executive
Development Program in Europe; and a
co-director of the University of South
International Membership of Curtis E. Harvey Bodo Schlegelmilch
12 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII / 1 / 1993
the Academy of Marketing
Science. His research focuses on inter­national
marketing, marketing of ser­vices
and business ethics. He is on the
editorial board of various academic
journals and has published his work,
among others, in the Journal of
International Business Studies,
Industrial Marketing Management,
Managerial and Decision Economics,
and the European Journal of
Marketing.
Dr. Schlegelmilch has a degree in
Business Administration from Cologne,
Germany, and received an M.Sc. and
Ph.D. in International Business/
Marketing from Manchester, England.
He is teaching International Marketing
Research.
been in the area of transitions, repatria­tion
and cross-cultural adjustment of
international workers.
P. Candace Deans, Associate
Professor of World Business, has been
named assistant director of the Thun­derbird
CIBER. She is not teaching this
fall, but will offer a course in Wmterim
1994, Global Information Management.
Dr. Deans is an information systems
specialist who comes to Thunderbird
from the School of Business and
Accountancy at Wake Forest University.
Dr. Deans has been assistant professor
at Wake Forest since 1989. She has also
been a visiting assistant professor and
teaching/research assistant at the
University of South Carolina, a lecturer
at East Carolina University and a chem­istry
instructor in the North Carolina
public school system.
Dr. Deans earned her Ph.D. in man­agement
information systems from the
University of South Carolina She holds
an M.B.A. from East Carolina University,
an M.Ed. in science education from
North Carolina State University and a
B.S. in chemistry from the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Her publications include "MIS
Research: A Model for Incorporating
the International Dimension," in the
Journal of High Technology Manage­ment
Research, and a book which she
co-edited, Global Information Systems
and Technology: Focus on the
Organization and Its Functional
Areas.
Thomas I. Selling, Associate Profes­sor
of Accounting, came to Thunderbird
from Wake Forest University's Babcock
Graduate School of Management,
where he has been on the faculty since
1990. He has also been an associate and
assistant professor at the Amos Tuck
School of Business Administration,
Dartmouth College, and a visiting asso-
University, and an M.B.A. and a B.S. in
hotel administration from Cornell
University. He will be teaching two sec­tions
of Cost and Management
Accounting.
J. Donovan Penrose, Associate
Professor of German, arrived at Thun­derbird
this year from the University of
Washington in Seattle where he earned
an M.B.A. in international management
and business policy. Additionally, Dr.
Penrose holds a Ph.D in German studies
from Stanford University, and an M.A.
and B.A., in English and American liter­ature
from Stanford.
Dr. Penrose's teaching experience
includes four years at Gustavus
Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
as an assistant professor of German and
study-abroad advisor; a year as a train­ing
instructor of German at the Defense
Language Institute in San Francisco; a
year as instructor of second- and third­year
German at Menlo College,
Atherton, California; a year as instruc­tor
at Universitat Ttibingen in Germany;
and two years as an English teacher in
Institut Montana, Zug, Switzerland.
Additionally, he has been a research
analyst for Microsoft Corporation in
Munich, Germany, and a University
Lecturer, teaching fellow and preceptor
at Stanford. Dr. Penrose also has some
knowledge of French and Spanish, and
reading knowledge in Ancient Greek,
Old English, Middle High German, Latin
and Swedish.
Kay Mittnik, Assistant Professor of
German, came to Thunderbird at the
beginning of the spring, 1993, semester.
Since 1988, she had been an assistant
professor of German language and liter­ature
at Texas Tech University. Her spe­cialization
was the German novella,
Fin-de-siecle Vienna, and women writ­ers
of Vienna She also was director of
the study-abroad program, which
included an annual 7-week traveVstudy
tour. From 1987-1988, Dr. Mittnik was
an instructor in German and English as
a Second Language at Rice University
and the Goethe Institute, Houston. She
has extensive experience in Austria,
including studying part-time at the
University of Vienna from 1972-1979.
Dr. Mittnik has a B.A. from Furman
University, an M.A. in German from
Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in
J. Stewart Black P. Candace Deans TluYmas I. Selling J. Donovan Penrose Kay Mittnik
ciate professor at the Sloan
School of Management, Massa­chusetts
Institute of Technology.
Additionally, he was a graduate
teaching associate at The Ohio
State University during his Ph.D.
program, a teaching and research
assistant at Cornell, and an
instructor at the School of Hotel
Administration of Puerto Rico.
Dr. Selling recently completed a
one-year appointment as an acad­emic
fellow with the Securities &
Exchange Commission, Office of
the Chief Accountant, in Washing­ton,
D.C.
Dr. Selling has a Ph.D. in
accounting from The Ohio State
,we have among us
some of the finest
faculty members in the
country whose talents will
become obvious to their
colleagues and students in
the coming months. "
Dr. David Ricks
German from Rice University. Her
accomplishments include restructuring
the first-year German program, includ­ing
syllabi, and overseeing graduate
instruction at Texas Tech, and reorga­nizing
the second-year German curricu­lum.
She is co-author of Advanced
German for Musicians and is a mem­ber
of the Modem Language Associa­tion.
Thunderbird also welcomed several
visiting faculty, including two CIA
Officers-in-Residence plus faculty from
Vanderbilt University and Charles
University in Prague, as well as a for­mer
Thunderbird faculty member, Dr.
Carl Frear, who returns as a visiting
professor of marketing. •
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993 13
• Campus News
Thirty at Thunderbird
Duarte and Valdivieso celebrate
three decades of change and challenge
Celebrating 30 years of service
to the Thunderbird commu­nity
are Professor Joaquim
Duarte, Jr., and Professor
Jorge Valdivieso. Duarte is the Dom
Pedro II Professor of Iberian Brazilian
and Lusohispanophone African Studies
in the Department of International
Studies. Valdivieso is professor of
Spanish and chairman of the Faculty
Senate.
Professor Duarte came in 1963 to
enlighten students about the intricacies
of Latin American Studies. Thunderbird
was smaller then, "but still unique and
thorough." Impressed by the motivated
and truly interested students he found,
he stayed and six years later became
chairman of the department, a position
he held for the next 20 years. He
watched I.S. expand thanks to the dedi­cation
and sacrificing spirit of the hand­ful
of professors in its faculty; he was
the catalyst behind its
growth and recognition
as a full-fledged mem­ber
of our tripartite sys­tem.
Professor Duarte
credits three develop­ments
contributing to
his continuing satisfac­tion
with Thunderbird:
the first is the afore­mentioned
growth of
I.S. into its significant
tripartite position; sec­ond,
the creation of the
International Studies
Research Center and
the Dom Pedro II
Center; and lastly, the
Joaquim Duarte
14 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
success of the Thunderbird Newman
Club. He deserves to be very satisfied
with these achievements because he
was the pioneer behind them.
He takes great pride in the modern­ization
of the campus facilities, and
cites last year's conference, Latin
America: A 500-Year Encounter, spon­sored
by Thunderbird in conjunction
with the Pacific Coast Council of Latin
American Studies (PCCLAS). Apparent­ly
members of the PCCLAS, of which
Professor Duarte was president, enjoyed
the new AT&T Auditorium in the World
Business building so much, they wanted
to take it home with them.
Although he feels that Thunderbird is
consistently achieving greater excel­lence,
Professor Duarte desires to see
ever-increasing academic standards,
greater faculty interaction, and the con­tinuing
development of the E.M.I.M. and
the consulting branch of Thunderbird.
by Peggy Mankus
Professor Duarte asks his former stu­dents
to help him celebrate his 30 years
by donating to his favorite projects,
such as the Dom Pedro II Research
Center and the International Studies
Research Center, both of which will be
transferred to the new International
Business Information Centre. He
thanks benefactor, Dr. Thelma Kieck­hefer,
for her generous support of the
Dom Pedro II Chair of Luso-Brazilian
and Hispanic American Studies, and
invites all alumni and friends of
Thunderbird to join her ranks of giving.
DR. JORGE VAlDIVIESO
"Continuous change for the best,"
boasts Dr. Jorge Valdivieso, Professor
of Spanish, when asked about what he
has seen in his 30 years at Thunderbird.
Dr. Valdivieso came to the Glendale
campus in September of 1963 when
only three languages (Spanish, French
and Portuguese) were offered. As
Chairman of the Department of Modem
Languages from 1973-80 he was instru­mental
in introducing Japanese,
Chinese, Arabic, and the basis for the
future Russian program. He also
invested time and effort into expanding
the foreign study options available to
students, initiating the Guadalajara
Program with Dr. Geer, Winterim in
Lisbon and Barcelona with Professor
Duarte, the fIrst dual-degree program
with ESADE and the Exchange Pro­gram
with ICADE in Spain.
Believing strongly that living experi­ence
is crucial to language develop­ment
and cultural awareness, Dr.
Valdivieso continues to encourage each
Thunderbird student to take advantage
of the extensive programs offered. His
obvious focus on the needs and inter­ests
of students as the primary benefi­ciaries
of the Thunderbird experience
has prompted the student body to vote
him Outstanding Professor numerous
times.
Besides growth in his own depart­ment,
the professor notes remarkable
development all over campus from new
facilities to faculty credentials. And the
students have changed, too. Dr. Valdi­vieso
is most impressed by the quality
and commitment of the growing female
population, including many from out­side
the U.S. "(The men) have to com­pete
harder to keep up with them."
Dr. Valdivieso is also serving the
School in his second term as chairman
of the Faculty Senate. He delights in
assisting faculty members to join
• Campus News
Jorge Valdivieso
together to set standards and address
the academic needs of Thunderbird. He
has co-authored three textbooks
(Aprendamos Espanol, Negocios y
Comunicaciones, and Discutiendo
Casos de Negocios) and edited Studia
Medievalia. He was the founding editor
of The Journal of Language for Inter­national
Business, has published over
30 articles in professional journals, and
has presented more than 60 papers in
national and international conferences.
One of Dr. Valdivieso's teaching assis­tants
recent ly compiled a list of stu­dents
who have taken his Advanced
Business Spanish course over the past
25 years. The list numbers more than
1500 graduates! Looking for a gift to
help the professor celebrate his 30-year
anniversary? "(My former students)
know that the best present they can
give me is a letter telling me where and
how they are, and a sample commercial
document from the country they are
working in. I thank them on behalf of
my present students because they are
using (these documents) now." •
Conunencement '93
Honorary degrees granted to
T'bird alum and IBM executive
Athe August 1993 Commence­ment,
Thunderbird granted hon­orary
Doctor of Laws degrees
to James G. Parkel, director of
corporate support programs for IBM,
and Joseph M. Klein '47, retired presi­dent
of Pluess Staufer. Both are mem­bers
of the School's Board of Trustees
and were recognized for extensive ser­vice
to Thunderbird.
Parke I is a founding member of the
Thunderbird World Business Advisory
Council and was its first chairman in
1983. He was elected to Thunder­bird's
Board of Trustees in 1984 and,
through his role with IBM, has gener­ously
assisted the School with dona­tions
of IBM computer equipment for
the Computer Services Center stu­dent
laboratory, the language labs,
and, most recently, for the Multi­media
Center.
Parkel has worldwide responsibili­ties
for corporate contributions
relating to cultural and human ser­vices,
education and university rela­tions.
He is also President and CEO
of the IBM International Foundation.
Joseph M. Klein is currently a
member of the Pluess Staufer board
and consultant to the company. A
member of Thunderbird's first gradu­ating
class in 1947, Klein was the first
Thunderbird alumnus to serve as
chairman of the Board of Trustees
(from June 1983 to November 1986).
His concern for and intimate knowl­edge
of the School's philosophy have
Cynthia Choyce
'53 of Coral Gables
Florida, remi­nisces
over her
Thunderbi1-d class
yearbook with he1-
daughter,
Stephanie
Schneidernuln '93
prior to May,
1993 commence-ment
ceremonies.
made hinl a moving force on the board
since he became a member in 1975, and
an active participant in the board's
work to advance the School.
In the 1980s, Klein endowed a schol­arship
for qualified veterans to attend
Thunderbird. Klein has also been
named an honorary member of the
Thunderbird Alumni Association's
Board of Directors. In 1974 he received
the School's Jonas B. Mayer Outstand­ing
Alunmus Award and the Southern
California Alumni Association Award
for his achieve­ments.
James Parkel (top)
was the featured
speake'/" during
August, 1993 com­mencement
cere­monies
and also
received an hon­orary
doctorate
from Thunderbird.
Joseph Klein '47,
(below) member of
thefirst Thunder­bird
gmduating
class, received an
honora1Y doctorate
at the August, 1993
commencement.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993 15
• Footnotes
Faculty recently
'-' .......... ,... version of the
e :4eslped for individuals
an M.RA. degree, but
JntemaUonal dimension
emmt.ials. The program,
be completed in eight to
~.Jisbillg, on-line databases,
networks and electronic
~a!NTI!RHAS
has joined Thunderbird
assistant director of the
_ .. Rt6()JI1I'Ce Center. Fuller has
1IfttS;J~tise in the area of multi­._~
tlfllCU1lty support and was lead
.~14~,of multimedia at Glendale
·ce .. __ College. Recently, he won
_ aiftard as the outstanding innovator
for the Maricopa County schools. Dr.
BeVelb director of the cam­IN,.
miUltil1nedia center, said Fuller "will
_ ..... help in fulfilling our goal of
_&01ilr programs with new tech-
16 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 11 1993
~~~:::WWRH UNlVB51Tf OF It
Tb1l1'lderbird 1M a lis Naed a dual
degree agreement wJati the TJDiYetsbiY of
Houston to enable1liluclren to earn both
an MBA and a .. LM. by transferring
certain class credits between the
schools. The new agreement is sJmiJar
to existing arrangements between
Thunderbird and the University of
Arizona and Arizona State University,
said David Ricks, vice president for aca­demic
atJairs.
RENOVATION AND LANDSCAPING
CONTINUE ON CAMPUS
With the start of Glendale's 59th
Avenue widening project this summer,
campus palm trees were relocated from
59th Avenue to various places on cam­pus,
some along Greenway Road, some
near the campus Post Office and some
near the Greenway entrance. Other
campus improvement projects during
the summer included the addition of a
new roof to the main classroom build­ing
and the renovation of the Keyman
Residence Hall suites from double to
single executive rooms. "I" Residence
Hall was renovated from suites to sin­gles
as well, in the same style as the "J"
Executive Residence Hall. The Keyman,
"I" and "J" halls will be used mainly to
house participants in Executive Educa­tion
programs. Classroom 21 was also
renovated this summer with the
removal of existing seats and the addi­tion
of seats similar to those located in
Lecture Halls 53-55. The room was also
refurbished with new carpeting and
paint
ARIZONA DEFENSE CONVERSION
CONFERENCE PLANNED
The Arizona University Consortium
and U.S. Senator John McCain hosted a
luncheon and steering committee meet­ing
of the Arizona Defense Industry
Committee in April, 1993. Participants
met on the Thunderbhd campus to plan
the agenda for the third Arizona
Defense Industry Conference and to
examine the potential impact of defense
cuts on the state and the opportunities
for industry acijustment to the changes.
The conference will examine conver­sion
opportunities, consoHdation and
diversification among Arizona's defense
contractors, and will be attended by a
broad range of distinguished defense
industry representatives.
altECTORNMIIP
tielyn Tti.eoHld retired from her
p .. as , D It vice president for
P _oaneI and secretary of the Board of
'l'rUatees on July 30, 1993. She had
served the SdIOOl for 16 years. Dane J.
Jay has been hired as Thunderbird's
new director of human resources,
which reflectS a change in the office
name from Personnel to Human
Resources. Jay brings more than 20
years of experience in human resources
management to the position, with 12 of
those years in senior corporate manage­ment
level positions with multi-location
domestic and foreign involvement. Dr.
Mischa Semanitzky will assume the
duties of Secretary to the Board of
Trustees.
FIRST HEALTH DEGREE GRANTED
Jamie Sue Blose
was the first recipi­ent
of the new
Master of Inter­national
Health Man­agement
degree,
which was granted
during commence- ~
ment ceremonies in §
August. The degree ~
is designed to pro- ~
vide international
management education for individuals
who already hold a degree in nursing,
pharmacy, or medicine.
BANK ONE fUDGES $100,000 TO NEW
INFORMATION CENTRE
The School recently received a
$100,000 pledge from Bank One,
Arizona for the new ultrarmodem mIC.
Bank One, Arizona, N.A. was fonnerly
Valley National Bank prior to a merger.
Richard Lehmann, chainnan and CEO
of Bank One, Arizona, and Banc One
Arizona Corporation, is a member of
the Thunderbird Board of Trustees.
~GI.,OWIN
DOMJI'OWNPHOENIX
Ja a change from previous years, the
nigbt display of glowing balloons was
held in dowmown Phoenix near the
Arizona Center and the America West
Arena. These two facilities have
become dominant features of a busy
downtown Phoenix nightlife scene, and
the Friday evening event, billed as the
"Desert Glow" attracted considerable
attention for the Thunderbird Balloon
Classic, which occured during the fol­lowing
two clap, Nov. 6-7.
• Footnotes
IBM DONATES EQUIPMENT TO
MULTIMEDIA CENTER
To augment Thunderbird's growing
multimedia program, IBM has donated
multimedia equipment valued at
$86,542. Included are a network server
and seven work stations to be used in
the language instruction program.
James Parkel, IBM director, corporate
support program, facilitated the dona­tion.
He is a member of the Thunderbird
Board of Trustees and a former chair­man
of the World Business Advisory
Council. In 1990-91, IBM donated
$747,000 worth of equipment for the
language labs, computer teaching lab,
and business simulations to the School.
SCHOOL HAS NEW
PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
The Office of Communication
recently finished revising Thunderbird's
promotional video, "Educating for
Global Management." It is currently
available through the campus book­store.
The 12-minute videos are avail­able
in domestic VHS and foreign PAL,
SECAM and French SECAM formats.
SCHOOL COSPONSORS MEXICAN
CONFERENCE ON FINANCE
Thunderbird, Deloitte & Touche and
the North American Free Trade Associa­tion
sponsored a two-day conference in
Mexico City in June on "North
American Finance '93." The conference
addressed critical issues and provided
facts relevant to the changing financial
environment in North America Topics
of discussion included commercial
banking, securities/brokerage, insur­ance,
trade finance, project finance,
investment banking, venture capital and
leasing. Featured speakers and partici­pants
included government officials
from the U.S. and Mexico as well as
senior North American business execu­tives,
industry experts from the major
financial sectors, NAFTA negotiators
and business advisory members. Four
Thunderbird students attended as con­ference
liaisons.
DICK BOSSERT HEADS
COMPUTER CENTER
Dick Bossert has been named the
new director of the Computer Services
Center, including implementation of the
new campus-wide Datatel database
software. He is working to coordinate
the various components and integrate
the systems from a managerial point of
view.
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION HOLDS
INAUGURAL CONSORTIUM PROGRAM
Representatives of the companies in
the Thunderbird International Consor­tium
met on campus in the spring, for
their inaugural management develop­ment
seminar, "Managerial Issues in the
Global Enterprise." The 37 participants
from the eight founding member firms
represented 11 countries.
The Thunderbird International
Consortium I, is a group of eight global
firms that join with Thunderbird in an
executive education partnership. The
program allows firms the opportunity to
acquire focused, tailor-made executive
education for their middle- to upper­middle-
level managers.
The initial membership consists of
eight firms: Amoco Corporation, AT&T,
Scott Paper, VITRO S.A., Honeywell,
Kellogg, Warner Lambert and Fluor
Daniel. No two firms come from the
same industry.
For more information on the Consor­tium,
contact Barbara Carpenter, direc­tor
of the Thunderbird Executive
Training Center, at (602) 978-7822. The
program is under the direction of Dr. Ed
Barrett, vice president for executive
education.
PROF. DEQUENNE RETIRES AFTER •
22 YEARS AT THUNDERBIRD
Professor Robert G.H. Dequenne,
professor of French, Department of
Modem Languages, has retired after 22
years of teaching at Thunderbird. While
here, he not only taught all levels of
French language, but also directed the
Wmterim program in France.
NEW REGISTRAR NAMED
David Van Ness, formerly with
Yavapai Community College, has been
named the new registrar, following Dick
Bossert's move to Computer Services.
The Office of Registrar has been relo­cated
from the Academic Affairs Office
into the Student Services area where it
shares space with the Admissions
Office.
STUDENTS PRODUCE TRADE
CONFERENCE
The student-sponsored 1993 Inter­national
Trade Symposium focused on
three topics: Global Trading Blocs,
Cross-Cultural Marketing, and Small
Business Entrepreneurship under the
title, "Strategies Beyond the Year 2000."
Sixteen industry specialists presented a
variety of viewpoints for the 600 Thun­derbird
students who attended. The
October 22 event was cosponsored by
the International Business Women, the
Associated Student Legislative Council,
and the Mexico Club. The symposium
was free for Thunderbird students.
As a revitalization of the annual
World Affairs Conference (ak.a Inter­national
Business Trends Forum) last
held in 1987, its goal is to augment
classroom learning with real-world
issues. Financial support was provided
by Phoenix-based SynteUect Inc.
ASLC ANNOUNCES NEW PLAN FOR
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
On June 1, Beverly Trbovich, for­merly
with the Foreign Student Office,
became the Associated Students Legis­lative
Council's new office manager.
This new position is one of several
steps toward improving efficiency and
continuity in Thunderbird's student gov­ernment
Some changes that have already
occurred include the elimination of two
salaried positions-Ombudsman and
Publicity Chair-and the addition of
two salaried Das Tor reporters, who
will help ensure full coverage of cam­pus
events in the student newspaper.
Thunderbolt, the ASLC newsletter, has
been eliminated with an agreement
from Das 1br to publish event notifica­tions.
To further enhance communication,
the offices of Dean of Students Steve
Beaver and Joyce Rogers, director of
housing, were moved to the Tower
Building, which has been remodeled
into a student center.
ASLC also intends to increase Thun­derbird's
community involvement by
promoting a more active Volunteer
Services Committee and Outreach
Program. The capstone event of this
effort was InterFest on October 1, 1993,
which attracted more than 800 local
school-children to campus to provide
them with a cultural educational experi­ence
and showcase the cultural diver­sity
of Thunderbird.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1 / 1993 17
Business gift ideas.
Burgundy T'bird briefcase.
Luggage tag
Black notepad portfolio
with embossed logo, regular
size, also in burgundy
Gold business card case
Letter opener with case
Logo paperweight
Pen/pencil set
Red mousepad. also in gray
White/blue logo mug
Blue mug with large gold logo,
also in black, burgundy
$15.95.
$2.95.
$16.95.
$11.98.
$5.65.
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$8.95.
$4.00.
$3.98.
$5.49.
Shahrukh Masud, class of '94, stops by
the Tower Cafe for a cappuccino from
fellow T'birds Brian Vestergaard (cen­ter),
class of '94, and Juan M. Gallego,
class of '93.
Jostens Sportswear front-and-back
flag T-shirt. 100% cotton,
M,L,XL,XXL, $14.98.
Flag sweatshirt also available, $29.98.
Eastpak black tote bag with
Thunderbird logo, multiple compart­ments,
handle and shoulder strap,
also in green, navy, $52.00
Champion original reverse-weave navy
hooded sweatshirt. 90% cottonl10%
polyester, S,M,L,XL, $58.98.
Gear for Sports gray and white
sweatshirt with navy Thunderbird
lettering, 65% polyesterl35% cotton,
S,M,L,XL, $35.98.
T'bird Karen Kali, class of '93, shares a
word/picture language book with
Ashley Stamper, class of 2013, in the
bookstore's expanded language/
reference section.
Champion blue sweatshirt with
Thunderbird logo and lettering in yel­low/
white, 50% cottonl50% polyester,
S,M,L,XL, also in gray, $26.98.
Champion gray sweatpants with
yellowlblack Thunderbird lettering,
5()o,6 cottonl50% polyester,
S,M,L,XL, $24.98.
I Can Learn French, from Passport's
Pull-Tab Language Books, $12.95.
Kids' rugby-style blue/gray
Thunderbird sweatshirt from
Third Street Sportswear, $17.98.
Matching gray athletic shorts. $13.98.
Both in 50% cottonl50% polyester,
children's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
Champion reverse-weave gray
sweatshirt (left) with navy
Thunderbird logo, 89% cottonlll%
polyester & rayon, S,M,L,XL, $41.95.
Bobbie Boyd, director
of alumni relations, and
Stephen Beaver, assis­tant
vice presidentJ
dean of students, enjoy
coffee and conversa­tion
in the student-run
Tower Cafe.
Gear For Sports
tJi-color Thunderbird
sweatshirt in 65%
polyester135% cotton,
S,M,L,XL, $39.98.
Jostens Sportswear
black T-shirt with flags
encircling globe above
gold Thunderbird
lettering, 1000A> cotton,
S,M,L,XL, $13.98.
Elaine Massey and Sanjiv Baphna,
class of '94 T'birds, browse the
bookstore's apparel area
MY Sport gray sweatshirt has
turquoise Thunderbird lettering and
logo, outlined in navy, 90% cotton/lOOA>
polyester, S,M,L,XL,XXL, $29.99.
Champion turquoise shorts with
Thunderbird lettering and logo, 100%
compacted cotton, S,M,L,XL, also in
navy/green/yeliow/gray, $22.98.
White Thunderbird T-shirt with five
flags and kachina logo from Jostens
Sportswear, 100% cotton,
S,M,L,XL, also in gray, $13.98.
Same pattern available in white
sweatshirt, $21 .98.
Versatile Gear for Sports natural
jacket with dark brown coliar, subtle
Thunderbird lettering, outside and
inner pockets, adjustable cuffs,
1000A> cotton sand-washed fabric,
cotton chambray lining,
S,M,L,XL,XXL, $89.50.
Jacket also available in white nautical
style with navy coliar, lightweight
poly-cotton waterproof poplin, navy
lettering, S,M,L,XL,XXL, $84.98.
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• Alumni Event By Jennifer Erickson
A Living Legend dential election, he again was elected
to the Senate in 1968, 1974 and 1980.
He resigned from the U.S. Senate
January 2,1987.
({I've had a great affection for your
institution for many, many years. " ON CHINA AND TAIWAN:
One of the best examples of what a
free government can do is found on the
island of Taiwan. If mainland China
does away with the communist govern­ment,
my prophecy is that within 20
years, China will be the leading eco­nomic
power in the world and will be
the leading military power also. Is that
bad? No, I don't think it's going to be
bad. If we look now at the future of the
economics in our country, you'll find
that the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean
contains the economic future for
America. Wherever you go around the
perimeter of our ocean, you find grow­ing
economies-economies based upon
free enterprise, based upon ingenuity. I
would look forward to a world that has
a dominant force living on the mainland
of China.
A84, the wit and wisdom of
"Arizona's favorite son" is as
sharp as ever. Longtime friend
of Thunderbird and consum­mate
politician, Barry Goldwater shared
his candid views on the world, politics,
and his life with the Thunderbird com­munity
on a steamy August First
Tuesday evening at the Arizona Bilt­more
in Phoenix under the auspices of
the Phoenix Alumni Chapter. Following
are excerpts of his comments:
ON POLITICIANS:
You asked me to speak about the
world, and I'm going to attempt to, but
I'm only speaking my own mind,
as a retired politician. You get a
retired politician's mind to
unscramble, and a hell of a lot of
things come out that maybe
shouldn't!
ON BILL CLINTON:
People ask me almost every
day, "What do you think of
President Clinton?" Let's give this
young man a chance. I happen to
be a very strong, conservative
Republican and I think he's turn­ing
out to be quite a conservative
Democrat. I think that the man
20 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
has to be given another few months
before we can definitely say he's doing
right or he's doing wrong.
Goldwater first held public office as
Councilman, City of Phoenix, from
1949-1952, while he was president of
his family's business, Goldwater's,
Inc., in Phoenix. In 1952, he was
elected to the u.s. Senate, representing
Arizona. He served continuously in
the Senate from 1952-1965, when,
because he had been nominated by the
Republican Party as its candidate for
President of the United States, he chose
not to run a concurrent campaign for
his Senate seat. Defeated in the Presi-
Erik Myhrberg '89, pres­ident
of the Phoenix
Chapter of the Thunder­bird
Alumni Associa­tion,
chats with former
Senator Barry Gold­water,
who spoke to a
capacity crowd at the
Arizona Biltmore under
the auspices of the
Phoenix Thunderbird
group. Karen Culver '87
(above) presents a
Thunderbird t-shirt to
Senator Goldwater
foUowing his speech.
Senator Goldwater was a key
participant in the first Thunder­bird
Statesman's Series, "Leader­ship
in Global Understanding,"
in 1991, which focused on
Taiwan. An active voice for the
Republic of China on Taiwan, he
helped shape a law known as the
Taiwan Relations Act of 1979
which replaced diplomatic recog­nition
with statutory recogni­tion
of the nation.
ON HIS MOST
ADMIRED PEOPLE:
The man I think I would put at
the head of my list would be
Winston Churchill. I have great
admiration for his background,
for his ability, his wonderful abil­ity
to express himself, and his
ability to look forward and tell
the world what was coming. He
saved England and I think he
saved the world. There are many
others, Chiang Kai-shek-a man
that not many people knew, and I
had the pleasure of knowing him
probably better than most peo­ple.
I used to fly airplanes for
him. I know that one flight I
made for him, he had his own C-
47 that he wanted me to land at
Taipei. Well, there wasn't a land­ing
strip over there but there was
a road, so I landed the old air­plane
on the road. I was a great
admirer of Ike Eisenhower. With his
ability to put people together-[to] put
General Bradley in the same tent with
General Montgomery and have them
come out smiling at each other-the
war was won.
A prolific pilot, Goldwater served in
the u.s. Army Reserves and u.s. Air
Force, retiring after 37 years of service
in 1967 as a major general, USAFR.
He logged more than 15,000 flying
hours in more than 160 types of air­craft.
He was chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee from 1982-
1986. Senator Goldwater is now
retired and lives in Scottsdale,
Arizona.
ON THE FEDERAL DEFICIT:
There's only one answer to balancing
the budget, that's the same answer that
you and I have-you try to spend within
your income. Until the time comes
when we determine that we're not going
to build every federal building, every
mile of road, every new this or new that
that everybody wants, until we really
say "no," we're not going to balance the
budget. And let me tell you another
prophecy, if that budget is not well-bal­anced
within five to seven years, the
country can be bankrupt within ten.
ON THUNDERBIRD:
I've had a great affection for your
institution for many, many years. During
World War II, I served out at Luke Air
Force Base as an instructor, and my
commanding general was Barton Kyle
Yount, who was then commander of the
6th training division which was head­quartered
in Santa Ana, California. I'll
never forget one day after the war was
over, I got a phone call from General
Yount. "I just bought Thunderbird Num­ber
1 and I'm going to make a school
out of it," [he said]. I thought, "Well, he's
really slipped his mind." "And I want
you to be a member of the board," [he
added]. And it's been my privilege and
honor to serve on that board. We're very
proud of the institution; there's no place
that I go-and I've been over the whole
world-that I'm not asked questions
about the school.
Barry Goldwater served on the
Thunderbird Board of Trustees from
March 21,1949 until March 15, 1985,
when he was nominated to the Board
of FeUows. He resigned from the Board
of Trustees June 7, 1985. The school
awarded him an honorary doctorate of
international law degree in 1984. •
Thunderbird in Europe
Open houses, alumni reunion promote
Thunderbird presence in Europe
Thunderbird hosted three open
houses in Europe to introduce
prospective students to the
School and to promote Thun­derbird
to European corporations and
organizations. Alumni were encouraged
to bring business colleagues and recom­mend
individuals to be invited. The
meetings attracted more then 500 peo­ple
and provided good contacts for the
Career Services Center
and the Admissions
Office.
Barcelona Spain was
the site for the first of
the three open houses
on June lO at the Hotel
Meli Barcelona. To coin­cide
with the Board of
Trustees and World
Business Advisory
Council meetings in
Archamps the following
week, another recep­tion
was held in
Geneva, Switzerland on
June 16 at the Hotel des
Bergues. Finally, in con­junction
with the Euro­pean
Alumni Reunion,
the third open house
was held on June 17 in
Munich, Germany at
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten.
President Herberger
hosted all three events
and representatives
from the Thunderbird faculty and
administration attended.
Last year, several alumni attending
similar open houses were instrumental
in helping the Career Services Center
locate nationals within their companies,
leading to follow-up meetings later in
the year. In addition, two job offers
resulted from a recruiting visit on cam­pus
last fall from Procter & Gamble,
Germany. A data base of European cor­porate
contacts is being developed that
can be used for admissions, internships,
hiring graduates, and executive educa­tion.
•
Peter Henggeler, a
member of the
Thunderbird World
Business Advisory
Council, visits with
an attendee during
the reception at the
Archamps Campus
near Geneva.
Henggeler is senior
manager, estate and
tax planning, Bank
Leu, in Geneva.
Mike Klesh '82 was
chairman of the Thun­derbird
European
Reunion held in
Munich in June. The
event was attended
by nearly 400 alumni
and guests.
Carleen Kerttula
'93, intern at the
Archamps Campus,
Paige Vrancken '93,
and Dick SneU,
chairman of the
Thunderbird Board
of Trustees, are
shown during a
reception hosted by
Thunderbird in
Munich. The Board
held its June meet­ing
in Geneva, dUT­ing
which they
visited the
Thunderbird
Campus in
Archamps.
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1/ 1993 21
• Network
Wick and Orr team up
for 1993-94 leadership
TAA ANNUAL MEETING REPORT
Seven people were elected to the Thunderbird Alunmi
Association (TAA) Board of Directors at its annual meeting
held October 2 at The Pointe at Tapatio Cliffs resort in
Phoenix, AZ. Re-elected to serve a second three-year term
were Maarten W. Fleurke '79, Stephen K. Orr '79 and H.
Gene Wick '60. Elected as new board members were
Joseph O'Neill '80, Richard Ragsdale '67, Mike Santellanes
'60 and Martha Van Gelder-Gypton '88. Leaving the board
after two consecutive three-year terms were Jack Donnelly
and Peggy Peckhanl; and after one term, Bryan Manning.
(Donnelly now serves on Thunderbird's Board of Trustees.)
TAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT
H. Gene Wick '60 was elected president and Stephen K.
Orr '79 chairman of the TAA Board of Directors for the
1993-94 year. As president, Wick will assume the adminis­trative
responsibilities of board management, including
committee recruitment.
Wick, a 1989 recipient of the Jonas Mayer Distinguished
Alumnus Award, brings to his presidency a 31-year interna­tional
career in manufacturing management.
Upon retirement from R. J. Reynolds as vice president of
operations worldwide in 1989, Wick relocated to the
United States where he joined the Thunderbird Alunmi
Association Board of Directors, taking an active role on its
Strategic Planning Committee and incorporating faculty
into homecoming activities and chapter progranlffiing
while chairing the Continuing Education Committee.
Orr, a former ASLC president, was last year's TAA
Board president. During his 1992-93 presidency he concen­trated
his efforts on broadening the association's strategic
relationship with the School's Board of Trustees and its
communication with Thunderbird administration.
BOARD COMMITTEE NEWS
During committee meetings held October 1-3, the TAA
board of directors reported on the 1992-93 results of its
current five-year plan.
Association Development/Chapter Relations: An
Alumni Directory will soon be available to assist alunmi in
chapter development, outreach and community service.
Student Recruitment: Recruitment programs were
conducted in Moscow, Santa Fe de Bogata, Colombia and
other cities. 450 Alunmi Educational Counselors (AECs)
contributed their services in 60 countries around the world.
Continuing Education: International business lec­tures,
seminars and forums enriched programs at several
chapters. Faculty seminars have been added to the
School's homecoming activities.
Career Development: Drake Beam Morin, Inc. career
development workshops were offered at several chapters.
The TAA Board voted that up to $10,000 of funds earned
through its Bank One affinity credit card be distributed for
student internships that are now non-paid.
Fund Development: Six individual alunmi campaigns,
combined with the TAA's 100% Participation Campaign,
have raised $600,000 to date towards the new Merle
Hiruichs International Business Information Centre (lBIC).
"Working through the TAA communication network and
these five elements of our strategic plan we have formed a
base for the participation of alunmi," said Wick. "Our focus
for the coming year is to promote and expand this base to
achieve alunmi participation in support of the school's stu­dents,
faculty and administration."
22 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 11 1 1993
ARIZONA
Phoenix
The Phoenix Chapter hosted for­mer
U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater as
a speaker (see story on pg. 20), pro­duced
a new business card directory,
photo exchange, and chapter year­book
and ran a 100% participation
campaign.
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
The well-attended annual meeting
of L.A.-TAA accomplished much,
including voting in new board mem­bers,
passing proposed bylaws, and
establishing the new address:
Thunderbird Alunmi, 12021 Wilshire
Blvd. #445, Los Angeles, CA 90025.
Orange County
The 1993 Winetasting Tour in
Temecula brought Tbirds from sev­eral
graduating classes together with
the L.A. and San Diego Chapters. The
day started with a Champagne
Brunch at Culbertson's Winery and a
guest speaker, Dean Richard
McDowell of the School of Business
and Economics at Chapman
University. Dean McDowell spoke on
"The Impact of Trade on Southern
California's Economic Recovery."
The group then moved across the
road to a private educational tour
and winetasting at Calloways
Vineyard.
Sacramento
The Sacramento Chapter sent out
a clever questionnaire to better serve
its alunmi. Contact Robert Joy,
(916) 676-9114 for more information
or results.
San Diego
Twenty-five people participated in
the TAA-San Diego Chapter's first
cultural seminar on "Cultural
Nuances That .Can Make or Break a
Business Deal." Professor Corrigan
of Thunderbird's Department of
Modem Languages, and Eric A.
Denniston '80, Chapter President, led
the two interactive discussion
groups. Participants spent the day
in1mersed in the Spanish language
while discussing how cultural issues
such as religion, family, education,
managerial styles and employee con­trol
affect the way business people in
Mexico and the U.S. approach their
work.
COLORADO
"From Russia with Love: A
Country on the Move, But to
Where?" Dr. Tucker Hart Adams,
chief economist for Central Banks of
Colorado, was the guest speaker at
the August First Tuesday. Her activi­ties
include analyzing economic
activity in this country and overseas.
Having recently traveled across
Russia by train, she was uniquely
positioned to talk about the chal­lenges
and opportunities facing this
proud and great land.
The First Tuesday of July
found 7"birds in Moscow at
Rosie O'Grady's, an Irish Pub
one kilometer from the
Kremlin. Photo courtesy of
Maarten Fleurke '79.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Networking Gala ill, sponsored
by WMBA, the Wharton Club of
Washington, and the National
Economists Club, was held at Club
Desiree, Four Seasons Hotel, on
September 10th. The event featured
networking listing. For the past ten
years, the D.C. Alumni Chapter has
been part of an informal consortium
of alumni groups known as the
Washington Management and
Business Association (WMBA).
Other participating graduate schools
of business and management include
Chicago, Columbia, Cornell (Fuqua),
Dartmouth (Amos Tuck), Harvard,
INSEAD (France), Northwestern
(Kellogg), Maryland, MIT (Sloan),
Pennsylvania (Wharton), Stanford,
Virginia (Darden) and UCLA. WMBA
provides member groups with a
larger and more 'diversified calendar
of activities and guest speakers.
Please contact Brian Marshall,
Thunderbird representative to the
WMBA, with any ideas for guest
speakers: (202) 293-5580 after 6:30
p.m. Back by popular demand, the
annual summer picnic is to be held
September 25th at Lydia Middleton's
residence in Great Falls, Virginia.
GEORGIA
Atlanta
Atlanta chapter First Tuesdays
take place at Prince Of Wales (1144
Piedmont Rd.) and have recently
featured local Tbirds presenting
their entrepreneurial experiences.
ILLINOIS
Chicago
Chicago alumni enjoyed a variety
of spring and summer red and white
wines from various locales around
the world this July at Sam's Wines
and Liquors of Chicago. The wines
were introduced and described by a
wine-tasting professional staff. In
May, chapter leadership was
assumed by Nassib Ghobril and
David Reed. Any questions or ideas
should be directed to Nassib at
(312) 380-6253 (h) or David at
(708) 690-3596.
NEW YORK
A new, permanent location for
New York First Tuesdays has been
established at the John Barleycorn
(209 East 45th Street, between 2nd
and 3rd Avenue). They now enjoy
their own space, bar, tunes and
complimentary hot hors d'oeuvres.
Connecticut now has an active
sub-chapter. Contact Isabel and
Jon Morales, (203) 454-8630, for
more information and to get on
the mailing list.
OHIO
Cincinnati-Columbus-Dayton
Alumni from all over southwestern
and central Ohio spent August 7th
near Morgan's Canoe Livery, canoe­ing
and picnicking on the scenic
Little Miami River. Early in the Sunl­mer
25 Cincinnati Tbirds attended a
Reds game outing in one of the
luxury skyboxes.
OREGON
Special thanks go to Steve Porter
of the Portland Chapter for organiz­ing
a Tbird rendezvous at a Zoo Jazz
concert this year. Several weather­hearty
folks managed to find each
other and enjoy the music. Thanks
also to Steve Goffena, Jeff
Gunzelman, Dave Benevento and
Ron LaGraff for a classy northwest­ern
salmon bake. Following a suc­cessful
fishing expedition, these
Tbirds invited everyone at First
Tuesday to attend the salmon feast.
Head Of The Class
Manhattan T'birds
gather in Chinatown
at the Silver Palace
in January 1993.
(Back row l-r)
Deborah Camper­Sugiyama
'89,
Flavio Sugiyama '90,
Pam Mitchell '89,
Diane Beny '89,
Steve O'RoU1'"ke '89,
Tracy PenweU '89,
Jorie Ewald,
Christian BlackweU
'88, Fei Wu '89,
Cur-tis Lenox '89,
and unknown.
(FTont TOW l-r)
Kathy Askew, Barney
Lehrer '89, unknown,
Jeanne and Phil
Turano, and Karin
Hoerhold '89.
Photo courtesy of
Flavio Sugiyama.
Located just ten minutes from the American Graduate School of
International Management, this small, luxury hotel is at the gateway to Northern
Arizona's scenic wonders like the Grand Canyon and the red rocks of Sedona. It's also
next door to Metrocenter, the state's largest shopping mall with over 200 stores, 36
restaurants and 17 theaters. Hotel Westcourt features a pool, spa, lighted tennis and
Health Club, along with dining and nightly entertainment in Trumps Bar &: Grill.
Ask about preferred rates for AGSIM friends and families. Call 800/858-1033.
~
HOTEL WESTCOLJRT
At Metrocemer, 1-17 &: Peoria Ave . • 10220 N. Metro Parkway East, Phoenix AZ. 85051
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII /1 / 1993 23
• Network
Events
December 6-9
International Council
for Innovation in Higher
Education ConJerence
December 17. 1993
Commencement
Speaker: Michel Fribourg,
Chairman oj the Board
Continental Grain Company
January 3- 20. 1994
Winterim on campus
For information, call
(602) 978-7210 or
FAX (602) 439-5432
January 3-15. 1994
Winterim in Washington,
D.C.
For information, call
(602) 978-7210 or
FAX (602) 439-5432
February 27-March 5. 1994
"Finance, Accounting and
Control
for Oil and Gas Company
Managers"
Thunderbird Campus
A seminar for executive education
For information, call
(602) 978-7822 or
FAX (602) 439-4851
March 20-26. 1994
''Advanced Management
Program for Agribusiness
Industry Managers"
Thunderbird Campus
A seminar for executive education
Fm· information, calt
(602) 978-7822 or
FAX (602) 439-4851
April 28-29. 1994
"Population Migration:
Crisis in the Western
Hemisphere" Conference:
Campus 01fices will be closed
Dec. 22-26 and Dec. 30-Jan. 3 Jor
the holidays.
24 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 111 1993
Five out oj seventy
Foreign Service
Executive 01ficers
attending a 1993
conJerence oj the
u.s. Agency Jor
International
Development
(USAlD) in
Baltimore, MD,
Jound they had
something in com­mon
- they were
Thunderbirds.
(Top to bottom)
Myron Tomasi '57,
USAIDIHungary;
Neil Kester '87,
USAIDIKenyaj
Chuck Drilling
'85, USAIDlHaiti;
Judy Shane '78,
USAIDlBotswana;
and Neal
Meriwether '78,
USAlDllndia.
Photo courtesy oj
Neil Kester.
TEXAS
DallaslFort Worth
Six Dallas/Fort Worth T'birds
attended a Sunday brunch to learn
about the community service objec­tives
of the Texas-Kazakhstan
Alliance, and many feasted on
German cuisine at historic New
Braunfels after a day of tubing fun
and sun at Rockin' R River Rides.
Houston
For T'birds on the north side of
Houston, there is now a monthly
First Thursday happy hour. Location
is Matthias' Restaurant (3755 FM
1960 West). First Tuesdays for the
rest of the Houston area are now on
a floating schedule. For more infor­mation
contact Melinda Guravich:
(w) (713) 621-5661,
(h) (713) 952-5452.
San Antonio
The San Antonio Chapter turned
September's First Tuesday into a
winetasting event at Boardwalk
Bistro, The Wine Shop.
Phoenix, "The
Home" Chapter,
pictured here at
Mother Tuckers,
usually enjoys
40 to 50 people at
First Tuesday
events.
WASHINGTON
The Washington State TAA is hard
at work making plans to match the
recent success of the Washington
State Scholarship Drive (over $4,200
raised so far) with activities such as
the T'bird Reception, the Annual
Tbird Summer Picnic (with an
incredible turnout considering it
poured rain the whole time), and the
Tbird Softball Team. A reminder
goes to anyone looking for T'bird
Tuesday meetings on the Eastside:
starting in October they will begin
meeting at The New Jake
O'Shaughnessey's at the Bellsquare
Mall.
GERMANY
FrankJurt
The Frankfurt chapter will er\ioy
a very special T'bird Tuesday on
October 12, 1993. To be held at
Volkswirt (near the "Alte Oper"), the
special guest will be Brian Bates,
Thunderbird Dean of AdmiSSions,
who has invited prospective
students to join in the festivi­ties.
Also noteworthy,
Thunderbird is being featured
in the prestigious MBA
Studium published by
the Staufenbiel.
PUERTO RICO
San Juan Tbirds met with
Mr. Tim Weaver, Assistant
Director of Internship
Education, during his recruit­ing
trip to Puerto Rico.
SINGAPORE
Singapore Tbirds
gathered at the home of
Chris Fussner '82 for an
American style barbecue
to celebrate July Fourth.
The event was well attended,
with approximately 50
people (Tbirds, family
members, and guests)
present.
Photo courtesy oj
chapter pTesident
Erik Myhrberg '89.
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• Updates
1947 -1953
Morgan Bodie '47 is retired from his position
as owner of Carmany & Company. He lives in
Baltimore, Maryland. WIlbur R. Marisa '47
was recently on a dig in the Biblical city of
Murisa at the invitation of the Israeli govern­ment.
He lives in Ventnor City, NJ. Floyd E.
Lingle '49 is now retired. He lives in
Turramurra, Australia Frank F. Mordecai '49
is retired and self-employed in commodity
investment. He lives in Virginia Beach, VA.
Robert Plazibat '50 is retired and living in
West Bloomfield, Ml James L. Bastable '52 is
retired and lives in San FranciSCO, CA. George
W. Liddicoat '52 is self-employed with
Liddicoat's Marketing. He and his wife, Mary Jo,
live in Palo Alto, CA. H. Ted Withers '52 is the
executive vice president and director of sales
for Century Financial & Associates. He lives in
Los Angeles, CA. Benson I. Hattem '53 is the
affinnative action officer for the San Francisco
Redevelopment Agency, an urban renewal orga­nization.
He lives in Tiburon, CA. F. L.
Hubbard Jr., '53 is a registered investment
advisor. He and his wife, Margery, live in San
Diego, CA. Petter Svenkerud '53 is the vice
president and part owner of a lumber wholesale
and distribution firm. He lives in Huntington
Beach, CA.
REUNION
1954 November. 1994
Gardner W. Fulton is the exclusive represen­tative
for sales in Puerto Rico for U. Z.
Engineered Products. He lives with hls wife,
Angela, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Joseph E.
Rubay is retired from his position as chlef
executive officer of Rubay & Rubay. He
and his wife, Jan.ice, live in Danville, CA.
1955 -1963
Arthur L. Ortiz '55 is president and chlef
executive officer for Santa Fe Chili Inc. He lives
in Albuquerque, NM. W. F. Wassmann '55 is
the general manager for Franlchem S. A. locat­ed
in Mohandessin Egypt. Roy W. Young '55 is
self-employed as an engineering and business
consultant. He lives and works in Glendale,
California Robert Fambrini '56 is retired and
lives in Satellite Beach, FL. Robert A. Ash '57
is the international director for JAMO Inc., a
finn manufacturing construction materials. He
and hls wife, Jul.ia, live in Bogota, Colombia
Edward Botsford '57 is retired from Bandaq
do BrasiJ Ltda He lives in Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Vincent F. Fragano '57 is the general manag­er
for Tem1inal SRI., a business specializing in
fast food restaurants. He lives with his wife,
Lilia, in Asuncion, Paraguay. David B. Ryan
'57 is employed by A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
He lives in Modesto, CA. John C. Temple­Raston
'57 is employed by the Newspaper
Association of America He lives in Tiburon,
CA. Theodore Weisenburger '57 is an ESL
teacher for Rio Salado Commwtity College. He
lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona Stuart D.
Brolly '58 is a senior staff engineer at
Lockheed Missile & Space Co. He and IUs wife,
Betty, live in Santa Cruz, CA. Joaquin Gil del
Real '58 is retired. He lives in Panama City,
Panama William Rees '58 is the executive
vice president for Montana Technology
Companies. He lives in Butte, MT. Donald H.
Schmoldt '58 is d.irector of marketing and pul>­licity
for the Morale, Welfare and Recreation
Squadron of Seymour Johnson AFB in
Goldsboro, NC. Recently, he was a full-tinle vol­wlteer
press aide for the 52nd Presidential
Conunittee. He lives in Goldsboro, C. Larry
Basso '59 is the sales manager of Hughes
Network System, a telecommwtications compa­ny.
He lives in Houston, TX. Gary Sisler '59 is
president of Dade Shelters special.izing in hurri­cane
shelters. He and IUs wife, Barbara, live in
Miami, FL. Earl M. Ward '59 is the
president/owner of A.FS Associates, an import
and distribution business. He lives in
Cincinnati, OH. Robert M. Ballenger '60 is a
department head for marketing and manag~
ment at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. He
lives in Gansevoort, NY. Robert L. Brannon
'60 is the cltief executive officer of Fornlula
Technology Inc., a manufacturer and distributor
of commercial cleaning supplies. He and his
wife, Marilyn, live in Atlanta, GA. Neal Justin
'60 is the owner/president of Justin's
WaterWorld, a water theme park and Justin's
RV Park. He lives in Tucson, AZ. Thomas A.
Perrodin '60 is retired and living in Tucson,
AZ. Paul L. Reiss '60 is a managing partner of
the Corporate Finance Associates whlch pro­vides
financial assistance to ntiddJe market
businesses. His office is in Danbury, cr. John
J. Ross '60 is the vice president of College
Connections, a consulting firm based in New
York, NY. David I. Wallace '60 is the manager
of special markets with Taylor Made Office
Systems Inc., a copier and fax distributor. He
lives in Walnut Creek, CA. Kenneth Bennett
'61 is vice president, ntilitary markets, for W. D.
Warren Rack Jobbing KG. He lives with his
wife, Ursula, in Dreieich, Gemlany. James
Black '61 is the general manager with Bristol­Myers
Squibb Co. He and his wife, Marina, live
in Buenos Aires, Argentina Mark D. Moriarty
'61 is the deputy country representative for
Catholic Relief Services. He and his wife, Beba,
live in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia James B.
Patterson '61 is self-employed by Tread
Lightly Limited, a travel company. He lives in
New Preston, cr. Jack S. Beldon Jr. '62 is
chaimlan and general manager of Goodyear
Great Britain Ltd. He lives in Wolverhampton,
England. Ernest Bruss '62 is the managing
d.irector of Lewinger Hanillton Business
Investment Opportwtities. He lives in
Albuquerque, NM. Norris M. Cole '62 is
retired from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He
lives with his wife, Juditll, in Forsyth, MT.
Brian E. Lynch '62 has retired from his posi­tion
as the director of international business
development for Loral Defense System. He and
his wife, Jane, live in Glendale, AZ. Kevin J .
McMailon '62 is a senior vice president and
trust officer at First Virginia Bank, Southwest.
He lives in Salem, VA. Chuck Rensfleld '62 is
self-employed in his advertising (print media)
business. He lives in Escondido, CA. Laszlo I.
Belenyessy '63 is a medical doctor. He lives in
Los Angeles, CA. Glenn H. Glad '63 is retired
and works as a consultant. He lives in Bayonet
Point, FL. Patrick E. Partington '63 is retired
and lives in Upland, CA. Michael R. Smith '63
is a sales manager for Elof Hansson, a forest
products company. He lives in Riverside, cr.
David R. Wilson '63 is the owner of Highland
Enterprises, Inc. He lives in Charlevoix, Ml
REUNION
1964 Nove mber. 1994
Pierre Debbaudt is manager of financial sales,
Latin America, for SciTex America Corp. He
lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Michael Z. Frueh­wirth
is retired and lives with his wife,
Maudene in 1'uJwn Pueblo, Mexico. Gene R.
Hovey is the director of the American Appraisal
Association, Inc. He lives in Maidenhead
Berkshire, England. Edward R. Maldonado is
retired from Ole U.S. Departnlent of Conuncrcc.
He lives in Decatur, TX. David D. Ma is a prod­uct
manager for J. I. Case Co. He lives in
Racine, WI. Michael J. McTighe is deputy
council for tile State of New YorklDepartment
of Social Services. He lives in Delmar, NY.
1965 -1968
John W. Avard '65 is employed in the com­mercial
service of the U.S. Department of
Commerce. He lives in Kraainem, Belgium.
Bailey Nichols '65 is the senior vice president
of operations for S. L Waber Inc. He and hls
wife, Elisabeth, live in Green Valley, AZ. Ralph
E. Olson '65 is the president for a commodity
trading-export business. He lives in Salt Lake
City, lIT. H. Kenneth Palmer '65 is the manag­er
of private banking for the Riyadh Bank. He
lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Terence F.
Thomas '65 is managing director for
Meespierson Capital Management (Far East)
Ltd. He and his wife, Carol Thomas '65, live in
Hong Kong. William W. Venable, Jr. '65 is
senior vice president, banking, for Societe
GeneraJe Bank in New York, NY. He lives in
Rye, NY. Joseph F. Burke '66 is the cltief advi­sor
on industrial exports for Louis Berger
International Inc. He lives in Quito, Ecuador.
Jon C. Dyer '66 is the president of Preparados
EFEN SA do CV, a fast food business. The busi­ness
is located in Guadalajara, Mexico. Larry L.
Gornall '66 is the vice president of finance for
TRW Vehlcle Safety Systems, Inc. He lives in
Rochester, MI. Gerald H. Greene '66 is presi­dent
of Eastman Kodak & Company's Brazilian
operations. He lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. James
H. Koessler '66 is self-employed in the field of
investments. He and hls wife, Eva, live in
Billings, MT. Noel E. Lang '66 is the president
of Lang Commercialinlport and Export Co. He
and his wife, Patsy Yvonne, live in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Stephen Swenerton '66 is the vice
president of retail sales with Broan
Manufacturing Co., whlch specializes in residen­tial
ventilation products. He lives with his wife,
Pam, in Hartford, WI. Frederik O. Crawford
'67 is d.irector of National Commercial Bank. He
lives in London, England. Robert S. Eichfeld
'67 is a vice president for Citibank N. A. He and
his wife, Lore, live in Bombay, India Thomas F.
Gaffney '67 is self-employed in the financial
services business. He and his wife, Nina, live in
East Sussex, United Kingdom. Robert A.
Hopper '67 is the d.irector of international sales
for The Genie Company, a company specializing
in shop vacuums and access controls. He lives
in Canton, OH. Gary L. Mallon '67 is self­employed
in consulting. He lives in Roswell, GA.
Igor I. Mamantov '67 is the vice president of
S. A. Holdings, Inc., a telecommwtications firm.
He and his wife, Patricia, live in Dallas, TX.
William J. Messett '67 is the president of
Messett Associates Inc., an executive search
fum for top management firms in the United
States and Latin America He lives in Miami, FL.
Stein Owre '67 is the d.irector, international
sales and marketing, for The Quill Co. Inc.,
wltich manufactures fine writing instruments.
He lives with his wife, Deanne, in Sntithfield, RL
Timothy Paige '67 is a partner of Paige and
Ross Development, a real estate development
business. He and his wife, Cyntltia, live in
Longmeadow, MA. Wallace J . Whitley '67 is
the vice president/financial consultant for
Shearson Lehnlan Brotllers. He and his wife,
Linda, live in Dallas, TX. Richard Wilfred '67 is
an assistant professor of geography at
Bloomsburg University. He lives in Fairfield,
ME. Peter Bachhuber '68 is the
president/owner of Shoring & Supply Company,
Inc., a distributor of light equipment to tile con-truction
industry. He and his wife, Carol, live in
Kansas City, MO. Edgar L. Buck '68 is current­ly
self-employed as an attorney. Prior to practic­ing
law, he negotiated the flrstjoint venture in
tile People's Republic of Chlna for Welton
Becket. He lives in Alamogordo, NM. Sam J.
Butler '68 is the president and chlef executive
officer with Citizens Bank of Fannington. He
lives in Farmington, NM. John H. Fanning '68
is the general manager for Waggery Enterprises
Inc., an inlPOrt-eXPOrt trading company. He and
his wife, Jill, live in Albany, OR. Willard T.
Fields '68 is in sales at Christiansburg Cash
Register. He lives witll hls wife, Gail, in
Roanoke, VA. F. Berry Hayley '68 is an insur­ance
broker/agent for Poe & Associates, Inc. He
and his wife, Glenda, live in Coral Gables, FL.
Ralph V. Hetzel '68 is chlef executive officer
of Pelican Tours International. He lives in
Don Schmoldt '58
Congratula­tions,
Class
0/1960,/or
completing a
pledge 0/
$125,000
toward the
Erickson
Pavilion!
THUNDERBIRD XLVIII / 1 / 1993 25
• Updates
Marketing
Black Gold
Michael Boyatt '60
Imagine what it must have been
like to have been a marketing man­ager
for one of the world's largest oil
companies during the oil shock in
the mid 1970's. How does one best
market a product when its increased
price will cause severe economic
setbacks when the import bill
becomes due? For Michael Boyatt
'60, who was supply and distribution
manager of Esso Brazil at the time,
this was one of those situations an
international manager faces in
the course of doing business.
Boyatt first became inter­ested
in international business
while in the Air Force. "I saw a
lot of potential for American
business overseas. At that
time, 1 felt U.S. business was
more advanced and the world
seemed to be full of opportuni­ties,"
says Boyatt. In 1959, after
serving in the Air Force from
1956 - 1959, Boyatt decided to
attend Thunderbird.
"Thunderbird provided the oppor­tunity
to understand the world,"
says Boyatt. "Especially through the
teachings of Dr. W.L. Shurtz and
interaction with the foreign stu­dents."
Boyatt concentrated on
Spanish which he felt would give
him the best opportunity for a suc­cessful
career in international man­agement.
Upon graduation, he started work­ing
for Exxon. This was to be the
start of a rewarding career. During
33 years with Exxon
1970s took its toll on the developing
economies due to their dependence
on imported oil for the generation of
energy. When the prices shot up,
think of the inlpact on the import
bill. Prices literally quadrupled. As a
result, the standard of living slowed
down." He says, "By the 1990s most
countries have gotten back on their
feet and we are starting to see
improvements in infrastructure but
other challenges still lie ahead."
"The most rewarding aspect of
being an international manager is
the diversity of the business chal­lenge,
" says Boyatt. "The interna­tional
marketing manager must also
be a bit of a treasurer. There is an
added complexity in the logistics of
moving a product from country to
country where the laws, currencies
and issues are very different. " He
says that the international manager's
perspective is a lot broader. "The
international manager must not only
look at the sale of a product but also
the currency in which it is pur­chased/
sold and when the company
will receive payment. The timeJvalue
of money can be very costly if a cur­rency
is not stable. "
Complexities occur in other
aspects of the business as well.
"When the Valdez oil spill occurred,
we were painfully reminded of just
how important and challenging the
Management of Risk is to overall
perfoffilance of a company," says
Boyatt. "The effective manager just
cannot feel secure and
(16 overseas) he lived
in six different coun­tries-
Guatemala,
Nicaragua, EI
Salvador, Brazil,
Jamaica and Trinidad.
Boyatt says, "One of
the most gratifying
aspects of being an
international manager
is that 1 have been able
to grow to understand
and to eI\ioy so many
different cultures. "
The goal for most
managers in an organi­zation
is " ... to maxi­mize
the present value
"The most
rewarding
aspect 0/
being an
international
manager IS
the diversity
a/the
business
challenge . ..
consider any aspect of
the company's opera­tion
as being routine. A
good manager insures
that his/her organization
builds a culture of day­to-
day awareness of risk
and adherence to prede­tennined
operating
practices. "
Boyatt has been very
successful in his efforts
to market Exxon's prod­ucts.
Presently, he is
Vice President of Esso
Inter-America, Inc., an
Exxon affiliate with
5,000 employees and
of future cash flows," says Boyatt.
"To an international manager this is
particularly challenging because
there are so many different factors
involved. Exxon operates in 27 dif­ferent
countries in Latin America
alone." This translates into 27 differ­ent
currencies, not to mention legal,
cultural and language differences.
"Over the years, there has been
significant impact on Latin American
countries due to the cost of energy,"
says Boyatt. "The oil shock of the
sales of $10 million per day. He is
marketing director with functional
responsibility for sales, aviation, ter­minalling,
marine, lube blending
plants and engineering in 27 coun­tries
throughout the Caribbean
Basin, Mexico, and Central and
South America. He also has contact
director responsibility for the over­all
downstream business in Mexico
and Colombia.
And'rea M. Komives '94
26 THUNDERBIRD XLVIII 1 1 1 1993
Nelson, New Zealand. James F. Lehman '68 is
in sales with Lawrence Eyeware Inc. He and his
wife, Tami, live in Boulder, CO. William B.
Martin '68 is director of marketing for
Castleberry's Food Company. He and his wife,
Nancy, live in Augusta, GA. Richard W. Melick
'68 is the vice presidentJgeneraJ manager of
Utility Specialist Inc. He lives in Phoenix, AZ.
John E. O'Brien '68 is the president of Color­Tec
Inc., a retail photo business. He and his
wife, Anne, live in Carrollton, TX. C. Scott
Sipherd '68 is employed by the U.S. Justice
Department. He lives in Lincoln, NE. Richard
Weden '68 is the president of American
Express (Mexico) SA de Cry. He lives with his
wife, Mary, in Lumas Altos, Mexico. Ewart J.
White m '68 is employed at Grosse Pointe
Academy in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI.
REUNION
1969 November. 1994
James Crowe is a stockbroker for Edward D.
Jones & Co. He lives in Eureka, IL. Bonnie
Gadless is retired. She and her husband,
Robert Scanlon, live in Tallahassee, FL.
Charles W. Gameros is the regional financial
officer for Travelers Insurance Company. He
lives in McKinney, TX. T. Marvin Hancock
recently returned from Sao Paulo, Brazil where
he was president and chief executive officer of
Banco de Financiamento Internacional SA.
Currently, he resides in Miami and is the chief
financial officer of Blue Tech Inc. Gerald A.
Hopkins is co-owner of Burchell Realty. He
lives in Carmel, CA. Ralph B. Hurlbutt is a
self-employed investment banker. He and his
wife, Louise, live in Devon, PA. Spiro
Janicovich is the owner of International Global
Trade, an international air and surface trans­portation
company operating in Chicago, IL.
Gary L. Johns is a managing director of
American Express-Eqyptian American Bank.
He lives in Cairo, Eqypt. Robert Kearns is
director of corporate finance with Polaris
Aircraft Leasing. He lives in Tiburon, CA.
Richard A. Koehler is the president for IKR
Corporation, an international marketing finn.
He and his wife, Inga, live in Houston, TX.
Peter McClean is the general manager of the
Saudi International Bank. He and his wife,
Martha, live in Rowayton, CT. Ted E.
Mullennix is the president and chief executive
officer for Applied Environmental Services. He
lives in Marina Del Rey, CA. Antonio Pulido­Morales
is an international coordinator for R.
W. Smith & Co. Inc., a customs broker and
international forwarder. He lives in Miami, FL.
1970-1972
Ervin Beal '70 recently joined J. C. Penney
Company as an assistant in the corporate legal
department in Plano, Texas. He lives in Dallas.
Gary A. Counts '70 is a real estate mortgage
underwriter with MPS Inc. He lives in
Frederick, MD. Marc Golubock '70 is the Unit
Chief of International Chemicals for the U. S.
Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement
Agency. He lives with his wife in Fairfax, VA.
Thomas K. Gray '70 is the senior vice presi­dent
at Golden Harvest Films, Inc. He is the
producer of the Nir\ja Turtles series. He lives in
Beverly tIiJls, CA. Daniell Henderson '70 is a
broker with Chuck Olson Real Estate, KaJisdell.
He and his wife, Debra, live in KaJisdeIJ, MT.
Pavel Kriz '70 is self-employed as a marketing
advertising consultant. He lives in Prague,
Czech Republic. James H. Pool '70 is the
western sis-Latin American sales manager witll
ITW Minigrip Zip Pale He and his wife,
Maribeth, live in Lake Forest, CA. Cheri Quan
Hensley '70 is U,e director of marketing with
Primary Medical Clinic. She lives with her hus­band,
Bud, in Midland, TX. Chase C. Rhee '70
is the president of Ameriko Industries Corp., an
importJexport fum. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Howard M. Spiegelman '70 is an independent
consultant. He lives with his wife, Deborah, in
Rockville, MD. Michael Sunderland '70 is
vice president, Latin America, for American
Body Armor. He and his wife, Kuka, live in
Mianu, FL. Carl Thompson '70 is the owner of
Toner Cartridge Service Specialists, a laser
printer cartridge recharging business. He lives
with his wife Evelyn, in Peoria, AZ. Vince
Zamis '70 is the manager and principal partner
in an investment business. He lives in Fountain
Hills, AZ. Thomas E. Dent '71 is a teacher ill
Guanl employed by the Department of
Education. He and his wife, Barbara Dungca,
live in Barrigada, Guam. Robert C. Dewolfe
'71 is the regional manager for Russia for Alfa­Laval,
a petroleunl company. He and his wife,
Kathy, live in Oklalloma City, OK Ronald C.
Eld '71 is the executive director-business plan­lling
for Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a drug discov­ery
company. He lives with his wife, Lande, in
Sall Diego, CA. Helen D. Hachem '71 is a relo­cation
coordinator and sales associate for
Gagliaroo Realty. She and her husband, Khalil
Hachem '72, live in River Forest, IL. William
R. Hubard '71 is a manager for
Eurobonds.!Foreign Exchange with R. P. Martin
Pic. He and his wife, Susan, live in London,
United Kingdom. Vincent J. Masucci '71 is the
senior executive of American International
Companies' West Coast Operations. He will be
based in Los Angeles, CA. Rosemary Miller
Berry '71 is living in Coral Gables, FL. Her
baby girl, Hannall Kathleen, was born in August
of 1991. William G. Nash '71 is the senior vice
president with Kemper Securities Inc., a real
estate investments business. He and his wife,
Barbara, live in Denver, CO. R. Lee Rigney '71
is the president for Capstar Partners Inc., a
lease advising fum. He lives with his wife,
Chris, in Mt. Kisco, NY. Robert D. Scholle '71
is an associate director at Merrill Lynch
International. He lives in Bal1rain, Saudi Arabia.
Donald J . Sobery '71 is a project development
vice president for Petroleum Source & Systems
Group. He lives in Decatur, GA. Claudio B.
Altmann '72 is director of Hisud SA. He lives
in Montevideo, Uruguay. Robert T. Angle '72
is the president of Thomas F. White Company, a
securities brokerage. He lives in San Francisco,
CA. Morris A. Barkan '72 is the president and
director of sales and marketing for Albar
Packaging Supply Inc. He lives in Tucson, AZ.
Manfred Braun '72 is the general export man­ager
for Ritz Punlpenfabrik, a manufacturer of
industrial water pumps. He and his wife,
Patricia, live in West Geffilany. James F.
Caugilman '72 is the regional sales manager
for Bakec Furniture Co. He lives in High Point,
NC. Stephen E. Chilton '72 is the vice presi­dent
with Cache Valley Electric Lighting
Company. He lives in Salt Lake City, ill. Bruce
A. Conti '72 is the vice president of interna­tional
operations and development with Gatx
Ternlinals Corp., wluch specializes in indepen­dent
liquid bulk selvices. He and llis wife,
Barbara, live in Wilmette, IL. William Evans
'72 is seJf-€mployed with International
Management Consultants. He lives and works
ill Easton, CT. Michael V. Grady '72 is tile
director of the western region for McDonnell
Douglas Finance Corporation. He lives in
Manhattan Beach, CA. Robert Greenbaum '72
is seJf-€mployed in the field of thoroughbred
horses. He lives in NOrtll Miami Beach, FL.
Richard E. Kohn '72 is the business develop­ment
manager for United States Leasing
International. He lives in Mill Valley, CA.
William C. Kristy '